It's a bit sad but not unexpected. I rode on two 747 flight in my life, both pretty memorable. Maybe the mourning for these planes is less about the planes but

It's a bit sad but not unexpected. I rode on two 747 flight in my life, both pretty memorable. Maybe the mourning for these planes is less about the planes but the kinds of epic flights most people would hop on them for. I rode one from LA to Auckland and back, as well as Chicago to London. Both very memorable trips for me. I'd always choose to ride one when I could. There was a sense of, maybe wrongly, safety in the jumbo having been around for so long, carried so many people safely. Yes they crashed, but most often from what I recall at no fault of the plane.