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The myth of Finnair flight AY666 to HEL on Friday the 13th

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Every Friday the 13th Finnair flight AY666 comes to life, this scheduled flight takes off from Copenhagen at 13:20 and lands 1h13mins later in Helsinki, abbreviated as HEL. This time the flight was performed with a 13 year old aircraft, and rumours go that the flight departed at gate 13 but arrived at gate 25 (lucky passengers!)

Popular international newspapers like The Guardian and The Washington Post wrote about this flight to hell -sorry HEL-. On twitter #AY666 is the spookiest hashtag you can imagine. If you dare to take this flight, the next (and maybe the last -see tweet airlineroute-) AY666 on Friday the 13th is on Friday the 13th of October later this year, scary!!!

 

https://blog.flightradar24.com/blog/flight-666-to-hel-on-friday-the-13th/

Not the first time newspapers and social media wrote about this flight:

This post was published on 15 January 2017 21:30

Bart Noëth

Working for 25 years in the aviation industry, I changed my career and became a firefighter/EMT in 2021. I like to spend my free time with my two sons, girlfriend, family and friends. I love to travel, wine and dine and support my favourite football squad KV Mechelen. Once an Ironman 70.3 finisher and dreaming of completing a full distance.

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