Brave Passengers Fly to HEL Aboard Flight 666 on Friday the 13th

Now this is spooky.

You know the usual Friday the 13th drill: Don't walk under ladders, make sure to step over every crack on the sidewalk, and don't even think of setting foot in a Restoration Hardware for fear of breaking one of those gargantuan mirrors and being punished with seven years bad luck. But apparently not everyone lives in fear of what many consider to be such an unlucky day.

On Friday, October 13, a group of passengers decided to throw caution to the wind by boarding Finnair Flight 666, The Independent. To add another scary twist to this story, the nonstop flight leaving Copenhagen, Denmark was bound for none other than Finland's Helsinki airport, whose airport code just happens to be HEL. As if flying to HEL aboard Flight 666 on Friday the 13th wasn't tempting fate enough, this is one of the last times Flight 666 will be flying to HEL: Come October 29, the flight will be renamed 954.

This isn't the first time a Finnair flight has traveled to HEL on Friday the 13th, either. In May of 2016, flight AY666 made the same journey and drew similar attention for the spooky confluence of such unlucky and satanic symbols. "It has been quite a joke among the pilots. I'm not a superstitious man. It's only a coincidence for me," pilot Juha-Pekka Keidasto previously told The Telegraph.

In case you were wondering, the plane landed safely in at HEL at 3:53 p.m., arriving to its destination a full two minutes earlier than expected. Given that Finnair was named one of the top 20 safest airlines in the world according to, that should come as no surprise. Thirteen might just be a lucky number after all.

This article has been updated with new information.