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A man was wounded and two other men — including the suspected shooter — are dead after a gunman opened fire inside a Long Beach bar early Wednesday, sending patrons fleeing to safety.

Police said an officer was flagged down in the 1700 block of East Artesia Boulevard about 12:20 a.m. by a person who told him someone was shooting inside the Bottoms Up Tavern. The officer heard gunfire inside the bar and headed toward the entrance, said Shaunna Dandoy, a Long Beach Police Department spokeswoman.

The officer, who has not been identified, was still outside when he saw the shooter and opened fire through the open front door. The gunman retreated to another part of the bar where investigators suspect he shot and killed a patron.

SWAT officers searched the building where they found the gunman, still holding a revolver-style firearm, and a wounded man. Both men died at the scene, Dandoy said.

Their names were not immediately released. It is not clear whether the gunman died from an officer’s bullet or took his own life.

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Police said the gunman first opened fire after he confronted a man inside the bar. The gunman shot the man, who then fled the building and was taken to a hospital with a non-life threatening wound to the upper torso, Dandoy said. It is not clear what prompted the altercation.

The gunfire sent people running from the bar. Some of the patrons suffered minor injuries as they fled the location. Three women and a man hid in the bathroom and were later found by police, Dandoy said.

Investigators found a bullet casing that doesn’t match the gunman’s weapon or the officer’s weapon, leading authorities to suspect there may have been a second shooter involved in the incident. Authorities are trying to determine the identity of that person and their role.

The bar employees and patrons were part of a close-knit community. Most of the patrons were regulars. Several employees said they were family or godparents to each other‘s children.

Based on what employees inside the bar during the shooting told her, bar owner Suzanne Blevins said she believes the shooting was a random act by a first-time patron.

The incident began with an interaction between the gunman and a cook, she said.

“There was nothing happening,” Blevins said. “He just said that ‘It’s gonna go down’… The guy ordered his drink. It wasn’t threatening, it was just weird. That’s when the gun came out.”

Blevins said the gunman pointed the gun at the cook and the two men briefly struggled. The cook jumped over the bar and fled. The gunman then began shooting others, Blevin’s employees told her.

“He didn’t want him, he just wanted anybody. It’s very weird, very random,” said Blevins.

Coroner’s officials have not identified the deceased men, but a family member confirmed the dead victim as Manuel Marquez, a 44-year-old bar employee.

Marquez began working at the bar just months ago as a maintenance worker but had recently asked for additional shifts behind the bar for financial help during the holiday season, Blevins said.

“He was hella cool,” Marquez’s sister, Cindy Marquez, said. “He got along with everybody, everybody liked him. Did anything and would help anybody, anybody. He helped around the bar, he would fix things. The girls needed something, he would help them.”

Blevins said she believes Marquez saved a bartender’s life. As the gunman shot at patrons, he and the bartender hid behind the bar. When there was a pause in the shooting, he urged her to run.

“I guess he didn’t feel like he had enough time,” Blevins said. “I don’t know why he wouldn’t go. He’s quick on his feet.”

Police say quick actions by bystanders and officers also likely prevented additional fatalities.

“Those individuals who alerted our officer to the incident and officers who took quick action prevented potentially additional casualties from occurring,” Dandoy said.

An El Dorado County sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed early Wednesday and another deputy was wounded during a shootout near a private marijuana grow in a rural area just south of Placerville, Calif., authorities said.

Deputy Brian Ishmael was responding to a report of theft from a marijuana garden at a private residence in the Sierra Nevada foothills community of Somerset, officials said. An off-duty San Joaquin County sheriff’s deputy had accompanied Ishmael on a ride-along.

The pair were “immediately” met with gunfire upon arriving at the scene, El Dorado County Sheriff John D’Agostini said at a Wednesday morning news conference.

The off-duty deputy “returned fire and did his best to save Brian,” but Ishmael was fatally wounded, D’Agostini said. The off-duty deputy was also shot. He was released from a local hospital after undergoing surgery.

Two men, who have not been identified, were taken into custody. One of them was shot and remains hospitalized in unknown condition, D’Agostini said.

Authorities said the scene was still active with a large law enforcement presence. “At this point we don’t know whether there are any outstanding suspects, and in an abundance of caution we are making sure that the area is safe for residents,” D’Agostini said.

The shooting occurred in the area of Sand Ridge Road and Mt. Aukum Road in Somerset, a rural unincorporated community about 10 miles southeast of Placerville and about 40 miles east of Sacramento.

Later Wednesday morning, a procession of patrol cars escorted Ishmael’s body from a hospital to the Sacramento County Coroner’s Office. Video showed first responders lining overpasses above Highway 50 to salute their slain colleague.

“Brian worked in this community and lived in this community,” D’Agostini said. “He was personable, easy to talk to, kind and always positive. He never had a bad day.”

Ishmael, a four-year veteran of the sheriff’s office, previously worked at the Placerville Police Department. He is survived by his wife and three children.

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A Laguna Beach man who police say beat a cat to death against the hood of a patrol vehicle was arrested early Sunday and later charged with animal cruelty, according to authorities.

After receiving reports of a man standing and screaming in the middle of the road, a Laguna Beach police officer arriving in the 400 block of Hill Street about 1:15 a.m. observed the man yelling and raising a cat into the air with his right hand, officials said.

The man ignored the officer’s commands and began approaching the officer while yelling unintelligibly, police said. The officer used his Taser, but it had no effect, police said.

After a second officer arrived, the man walked over to that officer’s car and began beating the cat against its hood, according to authorities. The man was hit with a Taser again and fell to the ground, police said.

Additional officers arrived, took the man into custody and collected the cat, which was dead, police said.

Joey Gabaldon, 52, was taken to Mission Hospital in Laguna Beach for medical clearance before being moved to the Orange County Jail. His bail was set at $20,000, jail records show.

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Gabaldon was charged with one felony count each of cruelty to animals and resisting an executive officer and two misdemeanor counts each of resisting a public or peace officer and assaulting a peace officer or emergency personnel, according to the Orange County district attorney’s office.

Police were still trying to identify the cat’s owner, according to Laguna Beach police Sgt. Jim Cota.

Los Angeles police are searching for a gunman in an officer-involved shooting that occurred late Tuesday night in Boyle Heights.

The area where the incident occurred just before 10 p.m. was closed by police and remained off-limits to the public as investigators continued to search for evidence.

One officer sustained a minor injury, but it was not the result of gunfire, the department said. It was unclear whether the gunman was injured.

According to the LAPD, the incident began when police officers attempted to stop a pedestrian. That individual ran from police after an exchange of gunfire. It was unclear why officers wanted to stop the person.

A search for the gunman concluded about 3:30 a.m. before resuming later Wednesday morning.

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Times staff writers Jaclyn Cosgrove and James Queally contributed to this report.

Activist group UltraViolet presented a petition Wednesday to NBCUniversal calling for the firing of its top news executives in the wake of the allegations in former correspondent Ronan Farrow’s book “Catch and Kill.”

A small group led by the organization that acts on behalf of sexual assault and harassment victims stood outside the headquarters of NBCUniversal parent company Comcast in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, chanting and holding up signs that read “Survivors Demand Justice at NBC.” The petitions with 20,000 signatures, including NBC employees, were delivered to the company through the Rockefeller Center building manager, who was alerted by security.

Shaunna Thomas, co-founder and executive director of the organization, said the petition calls for the firing of NBC News President Noah Oppenheim because of “troubling reports” of his role to “cover up abuse.” She added his actions as described in Farrow’s book demonstrate “that Comcast needs to do more to shift the work culture and prevent harassment at NBC and MSNBC.”

The petition also calls for the firing of MSNBC President Phil Griffin, who is described in Farrow’s book of once having shared a revealing magazine photo of former NBC personality Maria Menounos during a meeting in his office. Several protesters, who described themselves as devoted viewers of liberal-leaning MSNBC, expressed outrage over the allegation. MSNBC has yet to comment on the matter, but privately executives say the discussion was about a wardrobe malfunction that Menounos herself has addressed.

In an interview, Thomas also cited Farrow’s allegations that Oppenheim repeatedly obstructed his efforts to report on the sexual harassment and assault accusations made against disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. The book also alleged NBC News was aware of sexual harassment issues with former “Today” co-anchor Matt Lauer before he was fired on Nov. 27 after an employee came forward with a complaint.

Lauer has denied the charge and maintained that his relationship with that employee was consensual.

The book reveals that the woman who filed the complaint, former “Today” employee Brooke Nevils, said Lauer raped her when they worked together at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. NBC News executives have been under fire for not revealing the charge to staff at the time Lauer was fired.

NBC News has denied Farrow’s allegations regarding his Weinstein reporting, saying his story did not air because he failed to get a victim or witness on the record. Farrow took his reporting to the New Yorker, where it was published in October 2017 and eventually earned a Pulitzer Prize.

NBC News also has maintained that no formal harassment complaints were filed against Lauer before Nevils contacted human resources. Lauer, the biggest star at NBC News at the time, was terminated immediately.

Following Lauer’s firing, NBC News conducted an internal investigation and stated a commitment to improve the mechanisms for reporting sexual harassment within the company.

Thomas said her group has heard from “dozens” of NBC News employees who said the efforts have not been enough and called for an outside firm to conduct the investigation.

“What we’re hearing from employees is that it hasn’t been enough,” Thomas said. “We’ve heard from dozens of employees at all levels of the company. We know this is a companywide problem.”

Joanne O’Brien, head of human resources for NBC News and MSNBC, countered the claim in a note to employees sent Wednesday that was obtained by the Los Angeles Times.

“We’ve made significant progress,” O’Brien said. “We conducted in-person training for all employees on workplace behavior (2,145 employees completed), we’ve added new training so that managers are better equipped to build trust with their employees (562 managers completed) and we’ve included in managers’ performance reviews an assessment of their success in creating a positive work environment.”

O’Brien also said NBCUniversal has established additional confidential reporting outside of NBC News, with a new team to take and investigate concerns and an independent hotline for employees staffed by attorneys from the firm Seyfarth Shaw.

NBCUniversal has stood by Oppenheim during the controversy, offering him the company’s full support and a new contract. He is expected to succeed NBC News Chairman Andy Lack after 2020.

But there continues to be blowback, largely due to the Farrow’s book publicity tour, in which he has been given forums to lay out his allegations against his former employer that largely go unchallenged.

Among the many topics covered in his new book “Movies (and Other Things),” bestselling author Shea Serrano writes about high-octane hero Dominic Toretto with such infectious appreciation, I had to invite the visiting San Antonian to the Angelino Heights intersection where it all began.

“The mecca!” he grins as we park it on a bench across from the site known to fans of 2001’s “The Fast and the Furious” as Toretto’s Market. It is played onscreen by neighborhood bodega Bob’s Market. Outside on the street, many a tire has since burned circular tokens of tribute into the asphalt, and as we chat a steady stream of fans stops by for selfies.

Serrano has already scanned the market for tuna sandwiches. After all, it is a cinematic food covered quite seriously in his book’s chapter “What was Dominic Toretto’s win-loss record?” for which he exhaustively tallied and analyzed dozens of pivotal moments centered around Vin Diesel’s character in the “Fast” films.

“I saw the first [‘Fast & Furious’] when it came out in theaters,” says Serrano, a former teacher turned journalist and author, flashing back instantly to life at that precise moment in time. “I was brand-new into college, I finally had my own car… a little Ford Escort. I saw the movie and it was like you were doing burnouts in the parking lot afterward.”

When talking movies, Serrano inevitably waxes personal and philosophical, whether mulling sagas of street racers or, as in his book, films about homesick fish, dog-owning assassins, cinematic gangsters, who got the worst fate in “Kill Bill,” what should have won the Oscar every year since 1995, and Diane Keaton in “Something’s Gotta Give.”

In total there are 30 chapters on wide-ranging subjects in “Movies (and Other Things),” a follow-up to NYT bestsellers “The Rap Yearbook” and “Basketball (and Other Things),” also created with illustrator Arturo Torres. Each essay turns the pop culture whiz’s voracious appetite for movies of the last several decades into jumping-off points for wider cultural conversations and curiosities.

“Everybody who cares about movies in a certain way, you eventually end up back at the same five or six feelings that a movie gave you,” Serrano says. “And I have to write about the movies that I like in a way that allows me to get back to those feelings.”

We are here today because you share my love for the “Fast & Furious” franchise, which you write about in your book. Why did you connect with those films?

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Dominic Toretto was a very interesting movie creation. He has so much gravity to him. I loved that [San Antonio native] Michelle Rodriguez was in it; in San Antonio, she was like an icon. She was our acting version of Tim Duncan — beloved on every street corner! It helped that the movie was fun to watch. You got a peek into a world that I didn’t know anything about. And that was just the first one.

It became this global phenomenon but always at its center was Dominic Toretto, Mia, Brian and Letty, just talking about family. This is a thing you understand implicitly, either because you come from a strong family unit or you’ve got a [terrible] family unit but you’ve got a group of friends who feel like, if I got to pick my family that’s what this would be. And everybody wants to feel like that.

The movies we love stay alive in our hearts and minds, which is the emotional space your book plays within. Was that always typical of your own relationship with movies?

When I came to L.A. for the first time, the first place I asked to go was the basketball court where they filmed “White Men Can’t Jump.” It was like an hour-and-a-half drive to get out there, but this guy that I was working with at the time said, “I’ll take you.” It was like the best date I’ve ever been on. Then, I wanted to go see the tree from “Blood In, Blood Out.” When you watch a movie and it grabs ahold of you, it feels like it becomes a part of you. That feels silly to say, but you see it in real life. “Friday” (1995) is the first example I remember of this happening. … It seemed like overnight at school everybody started talking in the same six or seven sentences. Nothing was the same after “Friday” came out for a certain group of inner-city kids.

“What if the Rock starred in ‘Double Impact’?” hadn’t occurred to me before reading your chapter imagining the Rock in iconic films he never starred in, but now it’s a thought exercise I can’t forget.

It’s a funny idea, to think about putting the Rock in “My Girl” or “Double Impact” or “Titanic.” The reason we did this particular chapter this particular way is because it’s glancing at how the Rock became the biggest movie star on the planet, in an era where that doesn’t happen anymore. His game plan here was, “I’m just going to be in everything.” From 2016 to 2018 he was in seven movies. Seven! That didn’t happen in the ’90s. I wanted to talk about him and I wanted to talk about that, but I didn’t want to say that exact thing. So I go, “What we should do is put him in even more movies.”

You’ve got this silly idea that secretly has a bigger idea behind it, and eventually the reader will get there. If they won’t or don’t, it doesn’t matter, but if they do it’s a cool bonus.

You write about what the biopic “Selena” meant to you — and by extension, what J. Lo represented to the Mexican American community, even though she is of Puerto Rican descent. Was that something you realized at the time?

Why she’s important to me came later, but at the time it was like, “I’m in on Jennifer Lopez.” When you’re 13 or 17 you’re not like, “Representation is important to me.” John Leguizamo, I saw him in a comedy special in 1998 called “Freak” — I was like, “This guy is just a cool guy.” I liked him immediately. That’s what you understand when you’re a kid, just implicitly. You realize later on, “Oh, this is probably part of the reason why I cared so much about her.”

You also talk to your three young children about the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which they’ve now grown up with. One of your sons says, “Aren’t we all in one big universe?” Which actually is quite profound.

[Laughs] And he’s 12 years old!

And you raise a great point regarding “Avengers: Endgame” when you say, “I wish there was a Mexican Avenger.”

There were a hundred superheroes in that movie — you can’t throw us one? We can’t get one? “Endgame” came out and we had a really good conversation about it by accident, the boys and I. It stuck with me, thinking about how we let movies into our lives. The older ones are 12 now and we started going to the movies when they were 5 or 6. They’ve seen so many of these superhero movies. I thought, “We should talk about how this became a part of our lives.”

This book feels like talking movies over beers with a really inquisitive friend. What’s it like to actually go to the movies with you?

I’m great at the movies. I have the same movie theater philosophy as I do for airplanes. I’m not going to talk to you during the movie. I’m not going to talk to you on an airplane. I’m not going to get up to go to the restroom. I’m not going to take my shoes off. You don’t have to take your shoes off. Why are you taking your shoes off?

In honor of a classic you cite in one chapter, here’s a hypothetical: Do you think Bodhi survived the Wave at the end of “Point Break”?

It’s the perfect ending for Bodhi and the perfect character for Patrick Swayze. I am choosing to believe that he did survive. He paddled his way out of it. If anybody could have done it, Bodhi could have done it. Bodhi was one with the ocean.

Yamato is a film reporter for The Times.

All three elements of last Wednesday’s “Chicago” crossover were among the week’s six most-watched non-NFL programs, helping NBC to its second weekly victory of the 2019-20 prime-time television season.

The crossover began with “Chicago Fire,” airing at 8 p.m., an hour earlier than usual, and attracting its largest audience since April 3, averaging 8.24 million viewers, 13th among all prime-time broadcast and cable programs airing between Oct. 14 and Sunday, sixth among non-NFL programs and fifth among entertainment programs, according to live-plus-same-day figures released Tuesday by Nielsen.

“Chicago Med,” which followed, drew its largest audience since Feb. 20, averaging 8.94 million viewers, eighth for the week and second among non-NFL and entertainment programs.

“Chicago P.D.” was 10th for the week and fourth among non-NFL and entertainment programs, averaging 8.63 million viewers, its most since Feb. 20. Its viewership was up 36% from its 6.34-million average the previous week. “Chicago P.D.” was the week’s most-watched 10 p.m. drama.

NBC also had the week’s most-watched prime-time program, the Dallas Cowboys’ 37-10 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles on “Sunday Night Football,” which averaged 21.45 million viewers, the second-largest audience of the television season, behind only the 24.11-million average for the New Orleans Saints’ 12-10 victory over Dallas on Sept. 29. Viewership was up 44.1% from the 14.89-million average for the previous week’s “Sunday Night Football” game, the L.A. Chargers’ 24-17 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers in the least-watched “Sunday Night Football” game since Oct. 28, 2018, when the New Orleans Saints’ 30-20 victory over the Minnesota Vikings, opposite the fifth and final game of the World Series, averaged 14.09 million viewers.

NBC averaged 6.96 million viewers for the week. Fox was second, averaging 6.1 million for its 16 hours, two minutes of prime-time programming; followed by CBS, which averaged 5.66 million; and ABC, which averaged 4.34 million.

CBS, NBC and ABC each broadcast 22 hours of prime-time programming. CBS and ABC did not have any prime-time NFL programming to bolster viewership.

Fox’s weekly average was bolstered by the 46-minute runover of its afternoon NFL coverage into prime time in the Eastern and Central time zones and averaged 20.995 million viewers. The runover is not considered a separate program but is included in the weekly average.

Fox’s most-watched program was the Kansas City Chiefs’ 30-6 victory over the Denver Broncos on “Thursday Night Football,” which averaged 14.02 million viewers, third for the week.

Viewership was the lowest of Fox’s four “Thursday Night Football” games this season and 13.8% less than the 16.26-million average for the previous week’s game, a 35-14 victory by the New England Patriots over the New York Giants.

Fox’s most-watched non-NFL program was “The Masked Singer,” 20th for the week, averaging 7.42 million viewers.

CBS had the week’s most-watched non-NFL program, “NCIS,” sixth overall averaging 10.88 million viewers, the only entertainment program to average more than 9 million viewers.

ABC’s most-watched program was Penn State’s 28-21 victory over Michigan on “Saturday Night Football” which was 24th for the week, averaging 6.66 million viewers. “Dancing with the Stars” was its most-watched non-sports program, averaging 6.63 million viewers, 25th for the week.

ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” averaged a season-high 14 million viewers Oct. 14 for the Green Bay Packers’ 23-22 victory over the Detroit Lions, fourth for the week. “Monday Night Football” has been the most-watched cable program for each of the first six weeks of the NFL season.

CNN’s Democratic presidential debate Oct. 15 was second among cable programs and 11th overall, averaging 8.61 million viewers. The campaign’s other debates to air solely on cable averaged 8.69 million and 10.77 million July 30-31, also on CNN, opposite less original programming but also when overall television viewership is lower.

ESPN was the most-watched cable network in prime time for the third consecutive week after back-to-back second-place finishes behind Fox News Channel, averaging 2.82 million viewers.

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Internalized self-hatred fuels a black skinhead finding validation by way of brutality in Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s “Farming.” The mercilessly lurid account is based directly on the writer-director’s teenage experience as a product of a practice through which thousands of Nigerian parents fostered out their children to white British families between the 1960s and 1980s.

Raised with a fragmented cultural identity in a country where anti-immigrant sentiments fester, U.K-born Enitan (Damson Idris) disowns his heritage after a scarring visit to his birth parents’ homeland. First resorting to talc powder in order to hide his skin, he eventually exchanges his dignity for the company of a vicious pack of rabid skinheads who only welcome him halfheartedly. One-note but convincing, Idris’ performance seethes with furious abandon.

Disheveled in appearance, Kate Beckinsale impresses in her best work since “Love & Friendship” as prejudiced Ingrid, Enitan’s guardian caring for half a dozen other kids. In a small part as a concerned teacher, Gugu Mbatha-Raw represents the only ounce of tenderness found in the entire picture. The filmmaker plays his own father.

Excessive in its reliance on songs with lyrics that essentially narrate what’s onscreen, many performed by Akinnuoye-Agbaje himself, “Farming” revels in violence at the expense of introspection. Some distance between the source and the story would have benefited the themes at play, which end up buried beneath punches, slurs and bestial masculinity.

Dishearteningly, Enitan’s transition from lost soul to a scholar and now an artist gets shoved into the final minutes left over after all the bleakness. Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s admirable life story gets reduced to its most sensational chapter.

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Here are a few good deals for those going to San Luis Obispo any time soon: The downtown Hotel San Luis Obispo takes 10% off room prices for travelers who want to sample the new property a block from historic Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa. And the local Chamber of Commerce throws in $100 worth of Uber rides for visitors who stay two nights at any hotel in SLO town.

Deal 1: The hotel’s SLO Life deal comes with a free bottle of wine (worth $30) and a $50 credit at the spa. How does this pencil out? November room prices without the discount start at $329 a night, excluding tax.

When: You can book now for stays Nov. 15 through Feb. 28.

Info: Hotel San Luis Obispo, 877 Palm St.; hotel-slo.com

Deal 2: If you stay at least two nights at this or any SLO hotel, you are eligible for a $100 Uber credit good for jaunts (think: trips to vineyards) in and around San Luis Obispo. Sip, Stay & Save applies to new bookings; Saturday check-ins and blackout dates excluded, and other rules apply.

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Aside from International Space Station astronauts, most us would find 19 hours and 16 minutes an excruciatingly long time to spend in the air. Forty-nine passengers and crew members endured that record-setting flight time aboard a 787 Dreamliner nicknamed Kookaburra.

It took off from New York City and didn’t stop until Sunday when it landed in Sydney, Australia. The flight was part of a series of test flights for the Australia-based Qantas Airways, which hopes to have direct long-haul flights up and running as soon as 2022.

All that time in the air must mean lots of food service, right? Not so.

“To keep the weight down, there’s no cargo, and food and drink are limited,” writes Bloomberg’s Angus Whitley, who was on the flight. Indeed, half the aircraft weight was the plane, people and bags; the other half was fuel, 101 tons of it.

Just three meals were served: dinner after takeoff, lunch six hours later, and breakfast before landing. No snacks were served, but passengers could request something if they were hungry, according to Qantas.

Even with those limitations, the menu proved to be inspired. Dinner started with spicy tomato and saffron soup, and green papaya salad with poached prawns. Pasta with tomato and eggplant sauce, Chinese braised beef short ribs with bok choy, chicken breast with Mexican rice, and Jiangxi-style white fish with jasmine rice were among the entrée offerings. A lemon curd tartlet and coffee rounded out the meal.

Passengers were encouraged to stay awake for the next six hours and then were served lunch: roast sweet potato soup, a chicken and Swiss cheese toasted sandwich, and a dessert of panna cotta trifle with raspberries and toasted almonds.

Breakfast came before the plane landed in Sydney. Choices included wild berry granola, Bircher muesli, fruit salad and an apple Danish, as well as egg with smoky bacon, poached eggs and ancient grains, or an egg white omelet with balsamic herb tomatoes, kale and portobello mushrooms.

Beverages on board included water, sparkling mineral water, coconut water, kombucha, tea, coffee, Champagne and wine.

Qantas planned studies of the pilots (monitoring their “brain waves, melatonin levels, and alertness”) to study the effects of fatigue and jet lag, part of what it calls Project Sunrise. Adjusting cabin lighting and meal service times also were considered because they may play a role in reducing jet lag, according to the airline.

Here are some other facts about the flight:

It was flown by four pilots on a rotating schedule, with two more pilots in the cabin.

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It’s more than 10,000 miles between New York City and Sydney, a flight that usually takes 22 hours and 20 minutes, with a stop in Los Angeles.

The flight started at a cruising altitude of 36,000 feet and, as fuel burned and weight lightened, climbed to 40,000 feet.

Two more research flights are planned, the airline said in a news release: London to Sydney in November, and another New York to Sydney in December.