A winter 8,111-mile Dallas-Hong
Kong polar flight--American
Airlines AA 137--crosses the
Sandhills of
Nebraska USA, the MacKenzie
Mountains of Canada's
Northwest Territories, the Arctic north coast of
Alaska, a frozen
Chukchi Sea of the
Arctic Ocean west to the
Far East of Russia, eastern
Mongolia, and east-central China--a long day of flying culminating in a low-visibility landing a day before the arrival of a rare polar vortex in sub-tropical
Hong Kong.
0:01-0:30
DFW Airport stores and restaurants
0:30-0:50
Boarding in progress
1:06
Pushback from gate begins
2:06-2:37
Flight information announcement (
English)
2:42-3:06 Flight information announcement (
Mandarin)
航班資料通告(
普通话)
3:18-6:10
Flight safety video
6:21-6:37 Flight safety announcement (Mandarin) 航班安全通告(普通话)
6:39-12:10 Taxiing to runway 36R
12:10
Takeoff run begins on runway 36R
22:25-22:30 Computer-graphic view to the east of flight path
22:35-23:14
Cockpit announcement
23:15-24:40
Graphic view of flight path over
Kansas ahead
23:47-24:40 Mandarin interpretation of cockpit announcement
24:45-25:05
Present position over western Nebraska
25:30-28:00
Nebraska Sandhills in
Arthur County, Nebraska
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandhills_(Nebraska)
28:23-28:37 Present position over eastern
Montana
28:38-28:48 Present position over Montana &
Saskatchewan border
28:48 Present position east of
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
29:00-29:50 MacKenzie
Mountains,
Northwest Territories, Canada
30:23-30:33 Present position over north coast of
Alaska USA
30:33-31:18 Low winter midday Arctic sun over northern Alaska
31:18-35:48
Frozen sea surface of Chukchi Sea / Чукотское мoре between USA &
Russia / между США и Россией
35:49-36:10 Present position over Chukchi Sea / Чуко́тское мо́ре
36:27-36:37 Present position over
Wrangel Island, Russia / о́стров Вра́нгеля,
Россия
37:30-37:40 Present position northeast of
Yakutsk,
Siberia, Russia
38:26-39:50 Mountains west of
Sasyr,
Sakha Republic,
Far Eastern Federal District, Russia / горы к западу от Сасырa,
Республика Саха (
Якутия), альневосто́чный федера́льный о́круг, Россия
40:35-43:10 Mountains near
Chita, Russia / горы недалеко от Читы, Россия
43:10-43:24
Leaving Russia; entering Mongolia
43:25-47:15 Mongolia north of Baruun-Urt
47:27-47:28 Leaving Mongolia; entering
Inner Mongolia, China
47:35-53:00 Inner Mongolia, China 中国内蒙古自治区
53:00-53:11 Present positions near
Zhengzhou 郑州,
Henan 河南,
China
53:11-55:35 Clod covering central and southern China under
Siberian Arctic vortex
55:35-56:00 Flight data at position northeast of
Guangzhou 广州,
Guangdong 广东, China
56:39
Start of descent over
Macau 澳門 and
South China Sea 南海 for landing on runway 7L
1:19:50
Touchdown on runway 7L
Please consult FlightAware (or other online providers') tracking of this flight for aircraft information, flight data and route map:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAL137/history/20160120/1730Z/
KDFW/
VHHH
Other long-haul flight mileage for comparison:
5,990
Santiago (
SCL)-Auckland
6,
100 Los Angeles-Moscow (
DME)
7,470 Chicago-Delhi
7,490 Sydney-Los
Angeles
8,050
New York (JFK)-Hong Kong
Source: http://www.webflyer.com/travel/mileage_calculator/
- published: 07 Mar 2016
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