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Hargobind

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Jun 14, 2013
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KC, MO
Guys,
If your phone just departed from Zhengzhou, China on UPS, it is on this plane, it is going to depart from Zhengzhou International Airport to Anchorage, Alaska.

This is the only Anchorage bound flight scheduled form Zhengzhou as of now!
Go to this link!

It is Flight GTI8528 via Atlas Air!

Just putting in my 2 cents...

I'm guessing that this is it as this seems to be the only departure from Zhengzhou to Anchorage in a while and it is really close to the 5:15 time on UPS.

Just thought I'd pass this on!
 
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MrGimper

macrumors G3
Sep 22, 2012
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12,372
Andover, UK
Guys,
If your phone just departed from Zhengzhou, China on UPS, it is on this plane, it is going to depart from Zhengzhou International Airport to Anchorage, Alaska.

This is the only Anchorage bound flight scheduled form Zhengzhou as of now!
Go to this link!

It is Flight GTI8528 via Atlas Air!

Image
Image of the plane...no wonder it's huge!

Just thought I'd pass this on!

That is one phat plane!
 

Gaura Mohana

macrumors regular
Feb 24, 2011
164
18
Gainesville, FL
My phone's on this flight too! But I have my doubts about this picture... I know you got it from flight aware but still - I wonder why they put the dreamliner into service for iPhones - normally it carries B787 fuselage parts. I can't imagine why Boeing would let it be used for UPS flights.
 

Hargobind

macrumors member
Original poster
Jun 14, 2013
91
40
KC, MO
Remember, the 5:15 departure on UPS.com was when the boxes were physically scanned, so the flight is going to depart soon...
 

Sharkey311

Suspended
Jan 11, 2013
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According to my track number it's already in anchorage. Is this for people not getting their phones til after the 19th?
 

HiItsMe

macrumors 6502
Sep 12, 2014
441
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My phone's on this flight too! But I have my doubts about this picture... I know you got it from flight aware but still - I wonder why they put the dreamliner into service for iPhones - normally it carries B787 fuselage parts. I can't imagine why Boeing would let it be used for UPS flights.

Money.
 

Gaura Mohana

macrumors regular
Feb 24, 2011
164
18
Gainesville, FL
I'm seeing from multiple sources that 5Y-8258 departed at 5:10. How could they have scanned them after departure? Unless they had a portable scanner, scanned the pallet that our phones are on, came back to the office, and uploaded the scans into the system a little later?
 

TahoeDust

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Jul 2, 2010
287
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I'm seeing from multiple sources that 5Y-8258 departed at 5:10. How could they have scanned them after departure? Unless they had a portable scanner, scanned the pallet that our phones are on, came back to the office, and uploaded the scans into the system a little later?

Bingo
 

Hargobind

macrumors member
Original poster
Jun 14, 2013
91
40
KC, MO
I'm seeing from multiple sources that 5Y-8258 departed at 5:10. How could they have scanned them after departure? Unless they had a portable scanner, scanned the pallet that our phones are on, came back to the office, and uploaded the scans into the system a little later?

Idk, just putting in my 2 cents...

I'm guessing that this is it as this seems to be the only departure from Zhengzhou to Anchorage in a while and it is really close to the 5:15 time on UPS.
 

bradl

macrumors 603
Jun 16, 2008
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That is one phat plane!

I note you said "phat" versus "fat".

The latter goes to the Airbus 300-600ST: the Beluga.
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Airbus makes good aircraft, but bloody hell, if this doesn't look like a cross between an A300, Herman Munster, and a Conehead.

BL.
 

lke

macrumors 6502a
Jun 19, 2009
572
16
In the description it shows:

Boeing 747-400

I think it is the same as the one a pilot publish a photo in this site.
 
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