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It left the runway at Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) at 11:09 and touched down at St Athan (EGSY) at 11:18, has British Airways Boeing 747-400 G-CIVG just completed the worlds shortest Boeing 747 flight?
The flight between the two neighbouring airfields was the last for G-CIVG which has been retired from St Athan for parting out at specialist aircraft dismantler eCube but before when it touched down for the final time it may have set a record.
The previously known shortest 747 flights included another British Airways flight between Cardiff and St Athan. that flight lastest 14 minutes beating a previous Qantas record by 1minute.
The distance between the two airfields is just 3.67 miles as the crow flies and today’s flight, BAW9172 departed runway 12 at Cardiff before making a left turn to immediately line up for runway 25 at St Athan.
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Its maximum altitude was just over 3,000ft.
The previous flight between the two airfields in 2016 also left runway 12 at Cardiff but turned right and took a wider track across the Bristol Channel to line up for Runway 7 at St Athan.
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