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Two American Airlines Flights End Up with the Same Flight Numbers

62 points · 34 comments · samch

  1. vessenes · · focus · HN ↗
    Reminds me of the excellent, and frequently surprising <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flightaware.engineering&#x2F;falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-aviation&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flightaware.engineering&#x2F;falsehoods-programmers-belie..., which includes surprising false statements like:

    “Everything that has an ICAO code is on Earth”, and “flights are at most a few days long”. The whole list makes you despair of structuring any data, ever.

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