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Topic: Strange Iberia Flight HAV-MEX
Username: 71Zulu
Posted 2012-11-13 18:03:35 and read 369 times.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/I...3/history/20121114/0400Z/MUHA/MMMX

On an llyushin IL-18?

Cargo flight or FA glitch?

Topic: RE: Strange Iberia Flight HAV-MEX
Username: aviateur
Posted 2012-11-13 18:05:40 and read 371 times.

Obviously it's not an actual Iberia flight if it's an IL-18.

Topic: RE: Strange Iberia Flight HAV-MEX
Username: Braniff747SP
Posted 2012-11-13 18:20:47 and read 371 times.

Flight Aware glitch. IB doesn't fly IL-18, obviously.

Topic: RE: Strange Iberia Flight HAV-MEX
Username: 71Zulu
Posted 2012-11-13 18:28:27 and read 371 times.

Right but thought maybe a cargo flight operated for them by somebody else.

Topic: RE: Strange Iberia Flight HAV-MEX
Username: aviateur
Posted 2012-11-13 18:52:47 and read 373 times.

Quoting 71Zulu (Reply 3):
Right but thought maybe a cargo flight operated for them by somebody else.

That could be. The four-digit flight number beginning with a 9 makes this plausible.

PS

Topic: RE: Strange Iberia Flight HAV-MEX
Username: PlymSpotter
Posted 2012-11-13 19:06:28 and read 371 times.

There is supposedly an Il-18F in Cuba still, so it's possible.

Topic: RE: Strange Iberia Flight HAV-MEX
Username: FI642
Posted 2012-11-13 19:15:54 and read 371 times.

It could be an ACMI for IB, so it would carry their flight number.

Topic: RE: Strange Iberia Flight HAV-MEX
Username: migair54
Posted 2012-11-13 23:27:03 and read 371 times.

It´s an Aerocaribbean Il-18F operating on behalf of IB with cardo, they do very often because apparently the flight to MEX are very heavy an can´t carry all the cargo, so they send it via HAV, that´s flight is quite regular visitor of MEX in the night.
The plane also do flights to CCS, and before CU got the Tu-204F that plane was really busy, Aerocaribbean had another Il-18 pax version that used to fly mainly to Varadero and Cayo Largo del Sur.

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