I am informed by No.1 son that he was in the jump seat of a SWISSAIR MD-11 from Brazzaville to Kinshasa, when the block time was recorded at 9 minutes. The Capt. claimed a record for this, which required getting the right runway out of Brazzaville and lobbing directly into Kinshasa. Runway headings are within 10 deg of each other and the crow flies 14 nms.
I enjoyed the original posting of the LoganAir flight, however it brought back to me the reason I live just a couple of degrees above the Equator, the cold seemed to radiate from that Islander cockpit, and onto my lap(top)