The year 2023 is behind us, all over the world has already had time to celebrate the transition to the New Year and along with the festivities, as every year, there are several flights that take off in the new year and land in the year that ended. The explanation for this is very simple and it is an issue that happens every year and on quite a few flights.
One of the sample flights is a flight operated by Japan's All Nippon, which took off at 00:48 from Haneda Airport in Tokyo. The flight departed 48 minutes after the date was changed to January 1, 2024 in Tokyo. At the time, in Los Angeles, it was 07:48 a.m., on December 31, because Tokyo and Los Angeles are 17 hours apart.
TOOK OFF IN 2024 AND LANDED IN 2023, PHOTO: FLIGHTAWARE WEBSITE
The flight between Tokyo and Los Angeles takes just under ten hours, so the same flight that departed Tokyo at 00:48 landed just after 17 p.m. in Los Angeles on December 00, 31. The flight was carried out using one of the Japanese airline's Dreamliners, but it is just one of many flying from east to west that cause this somewhat strange situation.
Of course, in this case it is ostensibly a landing at a destination that is still in the past year, but every day there are flights that go back in time one day. These are flights that take off from east to west, from various destinations in China, Japan, South Korea and other countries, to various destinations in the West, including, of course, destinations in Europe and the United States.
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