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Spotting and flying the 747-400 from Mallorca!

April 7, 2023

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Join us for a ride on the beautiful Lufthansa 747-400, a very rare bird these days, and even more so within Europe. We’re flying from Palma in Mallorca (PMI) to Frankfurt, one of Lufthansa’s special Sunday flights during Easter.

We begin the day by planespotting at PMI and meeting up with a bunch of friends of Flightradar24 who’ve all come out to greet the arrival of the 747. There’s a Swiss A340-300 landing as an added bonus! And then we race over to the terminal to catch the 747 on its return leg back to Frankfurt, and we’ve got one of the best seats in the house – 84A on the upper deck. That means incredible wing and engine views and plenty of roar from those GE engines.

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Many thanks to those who helped out with and took part in this fun day out with the queen of the skies.

Alan @alan.theflyer for help with filming and inspiring the idea to take this trip in the first place. The link to his channel:

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Daneil @Aviation4dk21 for sending over his video from the landing on the 747 inbound to Palma. The link to his channel:

/ @aviation4dk21

And to Max, who wished to remain otherwise anonymous, for sending over videos of our pushback and taxi out.

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