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

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.

mikeash• 9 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.

mar77i• 9 years ago

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

scrumper• 9 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• 9 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.

MBCook• 9 years ago

Heh.

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

supercon• 9 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• 9 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 :)

em3rgent0rdr2• 9 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".

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

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