sentences:  This was the first time that a 747-400 had undertaken such a flypast in New Zealand.The funeral of Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti was sealed by a flypast from Frecce Tricolori over Modena Cathedral, his native town, on 8 September 2007.Tens of thousands of people who had filed past his coffin as it lay in state, witnessed the show of respect and mourning.