Mongolian Airlines Operates First Non-Stop Flight To The US

History was made on Sunday when a MIAT Mongolian Airlines Boeing 767-300 aircraft operated the first ever non-stop flight to the United States from Mongolia. Let’s take a look at this historic flight.

The Independent reports that a MIAT Mongolian Airlines flight landed at Seattle International Airport on Sunday, 21st June. With this, it became the first ever non-stop service between any city in the United States and Mongolia.

The flight lasted just under 11 hours in the direction departing Mongolia for the US, and just over 11 hours on the way back to Ulaanbaatar. It was not a passenger service, but a cargo one; its purpose was to deliver 60,000 items of personal protective equipment (PPE).

This PPE cargo load was a donation made by the Mongolian government to the United States. In particular, it was sent to the Navajo Nation indigenous community, which has been hit particularly hard by COVID-19. The community has had 7,000 confirmed infections, for a population size of 175,000. This makes it one of the highest rates in the US, and indeed in the world.

The aircraft that MIAT Mongolian Airlines sent to the US for this purpose is a seven-year-old Boeing 767-300, of which Mongolian has two in its fleet. The registration of the one that operated this flight is JU-1021. Interestingly, this aircraft carries the name Chinggis Khan. This is an alternative spelling of Genghis Khan, the notorious 12th-century ruler of a vast territory across central Asia.

On the way back, the aircraft flew to Ulan Bator with over 200 Mongolian citizens on board, who had, until recently, been stuck in the United States due to travel restrictions. It also carried back multiple crates of dinosaur fossils that belonged to Mongolia.

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