Lufthansa will make its longest flight for the second time

Lufthansa Airbus A350-941 (D-AIXP) at Los Angeles International Airport - Photo by: PlaneSpotters.net - Ricky Teteris

Today, Tuesday, on March 30th, at 09:30 PM (CET - Central European Time), a Lufthansa Airbus A350-900 registered D-AIXQ, with two female pilots in command of the flight LH2574, will take off from Hamburg airport. The Lufthansa A350 will land at Mount Pleasant airport in the Falkland Islands at the southern tip of South America after a 15-hour flight.

Like the first flight that took place in January, the objective of the flight is to transport scientists from the Alfred Wegner Institute (AWI) for a research campaign in Antarctica, relieving the 50 people who were on the first stage of that expedition. The special feature of the mission this time is that the German Aerospace Center will carry monitoring instruments on board.

"With the second flight to the Falkland Islands, we aren't only pleased to be able to support AWI's polar research expedition, but also to make an important contribution to future research on the Earth's magnetic field. We have already been supporting climate research projects for more than 25 years" said Thomas Jahn, Airbus A350 captain and director of the Falklands Project.

Registration of the flight LH2575 returning from the Falkland Islands to Germany on Lufthansa's first longer journey.

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