Chicago-Honolulu flight leaves O'Hare snowplows for Hawaiian sprinkles 2011-12-09
Passing 25,
000 to 30,000 feet below are
Mid West towns, the
Mississippi,
Wyoming plateaux,
Rockies peaks, Utah-Nevada desert,
California's Central Valley,
Sacramento Delta, northern
San Francisco Bay,
Point Reyes, eastern north
Pacific Ocean,
Koko Head, downtown Honolulu,
Barbers Point, and
Ewa Beach on a nine-hour flight condensed into 1/4 its length on a clear day along the complete flight path.
Specific passages:
Beginning of video:
Boarding the flight at
O'Hare
4:15-4:25 O'Hare snowplow completing a morning's runway clearance operation (seen while taxiing to runway)
5:50
Distant skyline of downtown
Chicago (while awaiting takeoff clearance)
7:40
Takeoff on 32R
8:40
Maine West High School,
Des Plaines IL (X-shaped building)
9:10 Interstate-90 at
Elk Grove Village northwest of Chicago
9:45-10:10 Ned
Brown Preserve of
Cook County IL
10:10-10:20
Schaumburg IL
13:05
Interstate 90 crossing
Fox River in north
Elgin IL
17:30
Belvidere IL
18:30
Junction of Interstate 90 &
Interstate 39 at
Cherry Valley IL
19:15
Rock River through
Rockford IL
21:40
Pecatonica IL (with oval-shaped
Winnebago County Fairgrounds south of
Pecatonica River)
23:10
Freeport IL
24:45
US 20 from the east curves into the town of
Elizabeth located in the northwest corner of
Illinois
25:20
Mississippi River (separating
Illinois from
Iowa) coming into view
26:00-27:50
Dubuque, IA
28:10
Dubuque Regional Airport (
DBQ)
29:00-29:20
Dyersville IA
29:45-30:40
Manchester IA
31:25
Independence IA
32:20-34:25
Cockpit announcement on flight path
33:25
Jesup IA
34:15-35:20
Waterloo IA
34:30
Waterloo Regional Airport (
ALO)
35:20-35:50
Cedar Falls IA
36:30 Dike IA
38:10
Dows IA west of
Interstate 35
39:50-40:00
Newell IA
40:45-41:30
Storm Lake IA
42:20
Cherokee IA
42:45
Washta IA (coldest place in Iowa), next to
Little Sioux River
43:30
Pierson IA
44:10
Kingsley IA
45:10 La
Mars IA
46:30
Sioux City IA
46:50-47:25
Big Sioux River separating Iowa from
South Dakota
47:35-48:10
Missouri River separating South Dakota (SD) from
Nebraska (NE)
48:10-48:25
Ponca NE
48:40-48:50 Missouri River separating South Dakota (SD), above, from Nebraska (NE), below
49:20
Hartington NE
50:05-51:10
Lewis & Clark Lake NE (near side) / SD (far side)
51:20
Bloomfield NE
52:00-53:05 Beginning of
Sandhills landscape of western Nebraska
53:05-54:35 Missouri River continues west
55:45
Hyannis NE as
Highway 2 / 61 winds west through the Sandhills
1:00:40
Bridgeport NE &
North Platte River
1:03:00-1:03:50
Highway 71 south of
Scottsbluff NE; leaving Nebraska & entering Wyoming (WY)
1:05:35-1:05:55
Interstate 25 north of
Cheyenne WY; beginning of Rockies foothills
1:07:35-1:07:50
Interstate 80 winds west of
Cheyenne towards
Laramie WY
1:07:
50-1:08:15 Laramie WY
1:10:25 Beginning of
Snowy Range of Rockies; leaving Wyoming & entering
Colorado (
CO)
1:23:00-
Dinosaur National Monument (CO); leaving Colorado & entering
Utah (
UT)
1:25:45-1:26:20
Vernal UT
1:28:001:28:30 Bottlehollow
Reservoir,
Fort Duchesne UT
1:28:40-1:29:15
Roosevelt UT
1:31:15
Duchesne UT
1:32:40-1:33:30
Strawberry Reservoir (larger of two lakes)
1:35:00-1:38:45
Wasatch Range
1:38:50-1:39:00
Nephi UT
1:39:30-1:40:05 western Utah ranges; leaving Utah & entering
Nevada (
NV)
1:42:00-1:43:05
Walker Lake NV; leaving Nevada & entering
California (
CA)
1:49:00-1:50:20
New Melones Lake CA
1:51:50
Central Valley foothills reservoirs: Camanche (L), Pardee (C), New
Hogan (R) CA
1:53:50-1:55:10
Stockton CA
1:55:00
Interstate 5 through northwest Stockton CA
1:55:10
Sacramento River delta
1:57:00-1:58:20
Oakley /
Antioch /
Pittsburgh /
Bay Point (of
East San Francisco Bay Area) CA
1:59:00
Interstate 680 crossing the
Sacramento River CA
1:59:25
Carquinez Bridge of Interstate 80 crossing Sacramento River
2:00:00-2:00:35
Tormey,
Hercules,
Pinole (of East San Francisco Bay Area) CA
2:00:40
Northern San Francisco Bay
CA
2:01:35-2:02:35
San Rafael CA
2:02:50
Kent Lake CA
2:03:35
Drakes Bay CA
2:04:50
Point Reyes CA
2:05:00
Flight clears
North American continent at Point Reyes CA
2:05:00-2:21:45
Crossing the northeastern
Pacific to
Hawaii
2:21:55 Approaching Oahu's windward coast
2:21:55-2:22:50
Koko Head,
Hanauma Bay &
Hawaii Kai
2:24:15
Downtown Honolulu
2:24:50
Honolulu International Airport (
HNL)
2:25:20 Barbers Point
2:29:00 Ewa Beach
2:30:40
Touchdown on runway 8L at HNL
2:34;35 Airside garden in airport terminall
2:35:05 The Bus bus stop in front of terminal
Link to this flight as tracked on Flightaware:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAL73/history/20111209/1710Z/
KORD/
PHNL