A passenger jet test crew spread festive cheer over Germany by flying a route that formed a perfect picture of a Christmas tree.
The path of the Airbus A380, as captured by flight tracking website FlightRadar, traced the shape of a fir tree festooned with baubles between Hamburg and Stuttgart.
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