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The paper plane

The last A340 flight from Shanghai to Zurich, told through a detail a passenger left on board.

A paper cutout of an Airbus A340 on a wooden table.

The last 340 flight to Shanghai said goodbye with a paper plane and a handwritten note: Fly safe and stay cheerful!, signed Siebe. A passenger wrote it for the crew taking it up one last time.

A paper plane is an old joke and a thesis: the impossible, thrown at the right angle, glides too.

A handwritten postcard for the crew, next to the paper plane.
The note, just as it left the cabin.