Call me a downer, but these around the world flights in extremely reliable modern aircraft, with the advent of GPS, SATCOM, 24/7 flight tracking, are all a bit ho hum really.
Just love the Australian bit of negativity!
Lachi deserves our best wishes for a safe flight. It still is risky business...Most of his 18 year old contemporaries are roaming the shopping malls!
I wonder what "wishiwasupthere" has ever done in aviation apart from PPRUNE..