Flight 666 Flies to HEL on Friday the 13th

We can only guess if there were any black cats in the overheard storage bins.

By Dan Bova Jan 13, 2017
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England news organization The Daily Mail reports that Finnair flight AY666 took off today from Copenhagen and safely landed at the Helsinki Airport.

To be clear, on Friday the 13th, flight 666 flew to HEL.

(If you are the superstitious type, you may want to throw some salt over your shoulder and make sure you’re not about to walk under any ladder right now.)

RT reports that Finnair has been making flight 666 for many years and that it gains a lot of popularity when it falls on Friday the 13th. (The last time was on May 13, 2016.)

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Finnair Pilot Juha-Pekka Keidasto, quoted by RT, says, “It has been quite a joke among the pilots. I’m not a superstitious man. It’s only a coincidence for me.”

If you were flying to HEL, would you purposely choose or purposely avoid going on the 13th? We wouldn’t have a problem with it, but we’d probably take a second look to see if any of the passengers were wearing hockey masks.

England news organization The Daily Mail reports that Finnair flight AY666 took off today from Copenhagen and safely landed at the Helsinki Airport.

To be clear, on Friday the 13th, flight 666 flew to HEL.

(If you are the superstitious type, you may want to throw some salt over your shoulder and make sure you’re not about to walk under any ladder right now.)

RT reports that Finnair has been making flight 666 for many years and that it gains a lot of popularity when it falls on Friday the 13th. (The last time was on May 13, 2016.)

Related: Watch Incredible Footage of a Drone Crashing Into the Seattle Space Needle

Finnair Pilot Juha-Pekka Keidasto, quoted by RT, says, “It has been quite a joke among the pilots. I’m not a superstitious man. It’s only a coincidence for me.”

If you were flying to HEL, would you purposely choose or purposely avoid going on the 13th? We wouldn’t have a problem with it, but we’d probably take a second look to see if any of the passengers were wearing hockey masks.

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Dan Bova

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Dan Bova is the VP of Special Projects at Entrepreneur.com and host of the How Success Happens podcast. He previously worked at Jimmy Kimmel Live, Maxim, and Spy magazine. His latest books for kids include This Day in History, Car and Driver's Trivia Zone, Road & Track Crew's Big & Fast Cars, The Big Little...

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