747 landing at Pearson
Aug 18, 2010 | 8:56 pm
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747 landing at Pearson
This might be a better question for the Toronto forum, so mods, go ahead and move it if you must. 
I was standing outside at 5:40 this afternoon and a 747 was coming in for a landing at Pearson but I couldn't read the lettering. I didn't recognize the livery. It was an all white fuselage with a half blue, half orange tail.
Anyone know what airline that was?
I was trying to think of the airlines that currently fly 747s to Pearson and I can only think of Air France, KLM and Korean. I'm sure there are others.
I was standing outside at 5:40 this afternoon and a 747 was coming in for a landing at Pearson but I couldn't read the lettering. I didn't recognize the livery. It was an all white fuselage with a half blue, half orange tail.
Anyone know what airline that was?
I was trying to think of the airlines that currently fly 747s to Pearson and I can only think of Air France, KLM and Korean. I'm sure there are others.
Aug 18, 2010 | 9:20 pm
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Forgot about CX...but looking at their livery, it definitely wasn't them. I had no idea that JAL serviced YYZ.
Aug 18, 2010 | 9:39 pm
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- JAL doesn't fly in to YYZ. In fact JAL's NRT-YVR is the only route to/from Canada served by a Japanese airline.
- KE flies 772s to YYZ, not 744s.
Aug 18, 2010 | 9:39 pm
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Sitting going nowhere fast in my truck on the 409 at around 5:30 I saw it too. It was definitely a JAL 747-400 coming in from ORD I believe. I remember asking about these oddball flights on FT a few years ago. Apparently then they were to see the fall colours but I think that it's a bit early this year so who knows what this one was for.
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Japan...7fb532d1b30f8d
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Japan...7fb532d1b30f8d
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Aug 18, 2010 | 10:25 pm
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Sitting going nowhere fast in my truck on the 409 at around 5:30 I saw it too. It was definitely a JAL 747-400 coming in from ORD I believe. I remember asking about these oddball flights on FT a few years ago. Apparently then they were to see the fall colours but I think that it's a bit early this year so who knows what this one was for.
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Japan...7fb532d1b30f8d
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Japan...7fb532d1b30f8d
Aug 18, 2010 | 10:31 pm
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Aug 18, 2010 | 10:40 pm
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http://flightaware.com/live/flight/JAL8813
Aug 18, 2010 | 10:46 pm
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Neither you nor OP mentioned it being a Cargo plane. Here is the mystery plane, headed for Hokkaido:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/JAL8813
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/JAL8813
Aug 19, 2010 | 8:31 am
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Neither you nor OP mentioned it being a Cargo plane. Here is the mystery plane, headed for Hokkaido:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/JAL8813
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/JAL8813
And I wasn't able to tell from the distance I was at, whether it was cargo or not, but that makes some sense that it was.
Cheers.
Aug 19, 2010 | 8:50 am
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Aug 30, 2010 | 3:28 pm
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Yet another JAL 747 flew over my house just now. Flight tracker says it's JAL 8813 coming from Port-au-Prince Haiti. Relief flight perhaps or delivering something to aid rebuilding the infrastructure? Very odd.