Finnair Flight 666 flew 21 times on Friday the 13th without incident, including its last flight on October 13, 2017. The flight number was later changed to 954, with the airline denying any connection to the satanic associations of 666. Friday the 13th has long been feared due to its ominous origins in the New Testament.
Finnair Flight 666 made the journey from Copenhagen to Helsinki on Friday the 13th a total of 21 times between 2006 and 2017, all without incident. On the last of those Friday – October 13, 2017 – the Finnish national carrier flew Flight 666 to HEL (the airport code for Helsinki), taking off and landing without a hitch, despite the supposed “bad luck” of the day. The 90-minute flight arrived three minutes late, but the weather at HEL was reportedly partly sunny.
The devil is in the details:
In 2017, Finnair changed the flight number from 666 to 954, but denied that 666’s satanic associations had anything to do with it. The airline said it renumbers its flights on a regular basis.
According to the King James Version of the Book of Revelation, 666 is “the number of the beast” and a source of anguish among the superstitious.
Friday the 13th has been feared for centuries. Its ominous origins go back to the New Testament: for example, Judas was the thirteenth guest at the Last Supper and Jesus was crucified on Friday.
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