Plane lands in US after world's longest flight
An Airbus jetliner arrived in Newark on Friday after a nearly 18-hour trip from Singapore, completing the world’s longest commercial flight. It marked the revival of a route that had been eliminated in 2013.
Singapore Airlines Flight SQ22 arrived at 5.29am (0929 GMT), having left Singapore’s Changi airport at 11.23pm on Thursday. That made for a flight of 17 hours and 52 minutes. The flight had been scheduled to take 18 hours and 25 minutes.
The plane carried 150 passengers and 17 crew members as it traveled 10,250 miles (16,500 kilometres).
“We were served a supper of three choices after takeoff. I slept soundly, woke up and realised [there were] around eight hours left,” said Danny Ong, an engineer and flight enthusiast from Singapore, who took the first flight back to Singapore, straight after landing in Newark.
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