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✈️️ Finnair flight 666, at 13 o'clock on Friday the 13th with a 13 year old aircraft, has landed safely in HELhttps://t.co/0kWfkcARmO pic.twitter.com/OPvpyyq4F4 — Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) January 13, 2017

All of the unlucky numbers associated with the Finnair flight have biblical origins. The flight number, 666, is the “mark of the beast” from the Book of Revelation meant to indicate the presence of Satan.

Friday the 13th, meanwhile, is believed to have gained its unlucky connotations due to Jesus Christ being crucified on a Friday the 13th (and betrayed by Judas, the 13th dinner guest at the Last Supper).

Nevertheless, there is speculation that Friday the 13th might be a slightly more dangerous day simply because superstitious people are causing accidents because they’re so freaked out.

An oft-cited 1993 British Medical Journal study, for instance, found an uptick in motor vehicle crashes along a stretch of London highway on Friday the 13th — and attributed the cause to psychology.

Thus, Finnair flight 666 might have been insulated from danger by the simple fact that it was flying in Scandinavia, one of the most irreligious corners of the world.

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