Live: Finnair flight 666 to HEL on Friday 13th at 13h

Live: Finnair flight 666 to HEL on Friday 13th at 13h(flightradar24.com)

88 points by webmonkeyuk 8 years ago | 20 comments

bflesch 8 years ago |

If you're also wondering about the error message: The flight is over already, it has successfully landed in Helsinki ;)

archvile 8 years ago | |

Did their souls make it too?

mseebach 8 years ago | | |

Their hearts are all in SFO, but their souls are in HEL.

supercon 8 years ago |

As someone living in Finland, seeing "Live: Finnair flight.." as the top post in HN gave me quite the scare. But luckily, we can consider this to be valid still: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/Worlds-safest-airline... !

stevekemp 8 years ago | |

Me too! And only recently I setup purchased a software-controlled radio, specifically so that I could watch aircraft flying over Helsinki in real-time.

It's pretty neat to watch them come and go :)

mikeash 8 years ago |

In case anyone else is wondering what's going on, it's just about the "unlucky" numbers. I thought maybe the plane had caught fire or had some other sort of crisis.

shaded-enmity 8 years ago |

Link without popup: https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/ay666/#f31526e

em3rgent0rdr 8 years ago |

Some cultures avoid "unlucky" numbers, especially if want to provide feeling of safety. For instance, Chinese will avoid the number 4 (especially level 4 in buildings or room numbers) since it sounds similar to the word for "death".

MBCook 8 years ago |

Heh.

If this flight disappeared can you imagine the field day cable news and conspiracy theorists would have?

nsxwolf 8 years ago |

What's 13h?

Kliment 8 years ago | |

24h notation for 1pm

badosu 8 years ago | |

1PM in 24h format.

mosselman 8 years ago | |

What is football?

randomfinn 8 years ago | | |

Easy. "ball" = round, "foot" = you play it with your feet, no hand contact allowed

;)

mil4n 8 years ago | |

Wow that's a question I did not expect!

nsxwolf 8 years ago | | |

I'm familiar with the 24 hour clock but not that notation. That looked like a hexadecimal number. I'm used to seeing 1:00 PM rendered as 13:00 or 1300.

mar77i 8 years ago |

https://i.imgur.com/ANIrmvN.jpg

scrumper 8 years ago | |

Memes and jokes generally go over badly here. (Though in mitigation this story does seem tailor made to attract that kind of response.)

HelloNurse 8 years ago | | |

It's only mildly funny and culture-dependent. Something more technical, like a flight that doesn't make it through a profanity filter or a date arithmetic glitch resulting in time travel, would have been received much better.