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

[bflesch]

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

[archvile]

Did their souls make it too?

[supercon]

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]

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]

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]

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

[em3rgent0rdr]

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]

Heh.

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

[nsxwolf]

What's 13h?

[Kliment]

24h notation for 1pm

[badosu]

1PM in 24h format.

[mosselman]

What is football?

[mil4n]

Wow that's a question I did not expect!

[mar77i]

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

[scrumper]

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