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2013/09/15 03:32:59
Subject: Would you board Flight 666 to HEL on Friday the 13th?
Would you board Flight 666 to HEL on Friday the 13th?
Daily Copenhagen-to-Helsinki flight from Finnair lands on two superstitious Fridays in 2013 Would you board flight 666 to HEL on Friday the 13th?
For superstitious travelers, that might be tempting fate. But Finnair passengers on AY666 to Helsinki — which has the 3 letter designation HEL — didn't seem bothered.
"It has been quite a joke among the pilots" said veteran Finnair pilot Juha-Pekka Keidasto, who is flying the Airbus A320 from Copenhagen to Helsinki. "I'm not a superstitious man. It's only a coincidence for me."
The daily flight AY666 from Copenhagen to Helsinki falls on Friday the 13th twice in 2013. Friday the 13th is considered bad luck in many countries and the number 666 also has strong negative biblical associations.
Some airlines, like Scandinavian Airlines, take these fears seriously and don't have a row 13 on board. However, the negative connotations are a relatively new phenomenon for northern Europeans, and Finnair and other regional carriers like Norwegian and Estonian Air keep row 13.
"Less than 100 years ago, the number 13 did not have this sinister meaning; it's quite recent in the north," said Ulo Valk, professor of comparative folklore at the University of Tartu in Estonia.
"There are 12 hours, 12 months and in Christianity 12 apostles and this is a divine number. Add one more and it brings in a certain element of chaos," he said.
But passengers on Flight 666 to HEL should have a calm flight over the Baltic at this time of year.
"It's hopefully smooth skies" says Keidasto. "And if there's some passenger who is anxious about this 666 our cabin crew is always happy to help them."
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2013/09/15 07:00:55
Subject: Would you board Flight 666 to HEL on Friday the 13th?
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2013/09/15 07:01:59
Subject: Would you board Flight 666 to HEL on Friday the 13th?
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2013/09/15 17:56:24
Subject: Would you board Flight 666 to HEL on Friday the 13th?
No, because travel anxiety, fear of flying, and the fact that I wouldn't have bought that ticket to begin with, so it's not mine to use.
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
2013/09/15 17:58:28
Subject: Would you board Flight 666 to HEL on Friday the 13th?
For the best flight ever, they have to play the following during takeoff.
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2013/09/16 11:25:56
Subject: Would you board Flight 666 to HEL on Friday the 13th?
Only if it has a metal band onboard with,
a guitarist willing to do an epic solo whilst standing atop the fuselage as,
the plane goes down and plummets into HEL
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2013/09/16 12:42:10
Subject: Would you board Flight 666 to HEL on Friday the 13th?
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