Our longest leg of the trip was from Los Angeles to Tokyo. The flight path took us over the Aleutian Islands and even the Kamchatka peninsula. Not only was this the longest leg it was also the most dangerous... after all, you never know when the Russians will get an itch to shoot a Boeing out of the sky.
1) 1978 - KAL902 (707) was shot down by a Su-15 near Murmansk.
2) 1983 - KAL007 (747) was shot down by the USSR in the same area we flew over
3) 2014 - MH17 (777). A few years back they got the itch again over Ukraine
Getting back to point - we arrived in Haneda without being shot down.
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| Photo by @7N1GPI |
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| Photo by @GTi787 |
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| Photo by @yappunyan_hk |
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| Photo by @Jasparina1 |
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| Photo by @yappunyan_hk |
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| Snack bars in the background (Falcons and Gulfstreams) Photo by @canon_hiroshi |
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| Photo by @japan_navy507 |
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| Photo by @lovelyrockqueen |
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| Photo by @terajiro |
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| Sy hi to Nicko! (Photo by @Cl7777) |
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| Photo by @BondsSam |
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| Photo by @yoseinomori |
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