John Travolta has been an achieved airplane pilot for many years, and the Pulp Fiction star simply upped his credentials.
“So a really proud second in my aviation historical past,” Travolta mentioned in a 15-second clip posted to Instagram on Sunday. “So as to add to my 747 and 707 licenses, I simply acquired my 737 license, and it went very nicely, so simply sharing my second with you.”
Tragically, a Boeing 737 is the kind of airplane that crashed in China on Monday, simply hours after Travolta shared his publish. The New York Occasions reported, “it was unclear if any of the 132 crew and passengers survived the Boeing 737-800 crash.”
In his video, the Oscar-nominated actor was smiling as he stood alongside a airplane on a tarmac.
Celeb pals together with Tommy Lee, Naomi Campbell and Donnie Wahlberg have been amongst those that cheered him on. “Ata boy captain,” Lee wrote. The New Children on the Block signer added that Travolta’s information was “so very cool.”
Travolta, now 68, was simply 15 when he first took a flying lesson, in accordance with CBS Information. He earned his first license to pilot a airplane in 1978, when he was in his 20s, the identical 12 months his hit Grease arrived in theaters. He is since owned a number of airplanes.
“Aviation has at all times bailed me out of something in my thoughts that’s blue,” Travolta mentioned then. “I can look by way of an airline schedule and brochure and cheer up.”
An envoy to Qantas Airways since 2002, Travolta additionally repeatedly notes Nationwide Aviation Day.
In November 2019, he gave followers a have a look at his son, Ben, who’s now 11, sharing his dad’s love of flying. “My son Ben is taking my place,” Travolta captioned a photograph of him within the cockpit (he is the one on the fitting). “His first A380 @Qantas flight.”
Along with Ben, Travolta is the daddy of daughter, Ella, who’s 21. The mom of each his youngsters is late actress Kelly Preston, who died in July 2020 following a breast most cancers analysis. The couple additionally had a son Jett, who died when he was 16, after having a seizure on a household trip in 2008.
