This is good story to recall whenever someone says that governments, organizations, and other big groups of people can't keep secrets. This was kept secret for 27 years (1987 to 2014)! I imagine that the pilots told their wives, friends, and other pilots all about it. <i>Nobody was even asking them to keep it secret.</i> Probably hundreds of people knew what happened, but the public and the Finnish Transport Safety Agency didn't find out for decades. Whenever I hear some incident that's made the news, I wonder about hundreds or thousands of worse incidents that same day that didn't make the news for whatever reason.
It's worth noting that Finnair hasn't lost an aircraft since 1963, and are by some measures thus <i>the</i> safest airline out there.<p>They're no minnow either: while not huge in the US, they've made a killing by exploiting their geographical location as the fastest transfer hub between northern Asia and Europe.<p><a href="https://www.finnair.com/hu/gb/home/rakastevagen" rel="nofollow">https://www.finnair.com/hu/gb/home/rakastevagen</a>
Reminds me of the brutal sinking of the swedish passenger ship Hansa by soviet, 84 people died with only 2 surviving.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Hansa_(1899)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Hansa_(1899)</a>