Boston-to-Chicago flight: Quincy, Gloucester, Haverhill MA; Lake Ontario; Lake Michigan 2012-01-07

Flight departs Boston Logan Airport on a mostly clear and unseasonably balmy winter day, with view of the beach neighborhoods of Boston and Quincy during the initial over-the-Atlantic climbout. After having turned inland, the northern beachside communities of Boston come into view, followed by towns and cities along the Merrimac River in the northeastern corner of Massachusetts. Cloud deck below clears near the eastern end of Lake Ontario, revealing the Oswego River and the south shore of lake Ontario of New York Sate, followed by cities on the Niagara Peninsula of the Canadian province of Ontario. Cloud thickens again west of Hamilton ON and Paris ON. Cloud deck extends west into Lake Michigan until flight is on descent for landing at Chicago O'Hare.

Time stamps of this flight:
2:00 Takeoff on Boston Logan Airport runway 22R
2:55-3:15 Downtown Boston MA
3:39 Mouth of Neponset River (above) & Thompson Island (below) MA
3:50 Squantum neighborhood of Quincy MA
4:13 Hough's Neck neighborhood of Quincy MA
4:27 Peddocks Island MA
4:54 Nantasket Beach of Hull MA
6:00 Cape Cod Bay MA
8:15 Gloucester MA
8:47 Wingaersheek Beach. Gloucester MA
8:54 Essex Bay MA
9:03 Great Neck near Ipswich MA
9:25 Ipswich Bay MA
9:50 Ipswich MA
10:37 Interstate 95 crossing Merrimac River at Newburyport MA
11:20 Merrimac River
11:40 Haverhill MA
14:30 Cloud deck below begins in western Massachusetts
15:47-16:25 Lake Neatahwanta & Fulton (Oswego County) on Oswego River NY
16:40 Oswego NY; beginning of Lake Ontario
17:40 Little Sodus Bay NY
19:35 Sodus Point & Sodus Bay NY
24:18 Port of Rochester NY
26:00 Marina at Kent NY
27:40 Durham Region shoreline ON
30:15 Newfane NY
31:30 Mouth of Niagara river (left) with sediment drifting east (to right) along Lake Ontario shore of New York
32:30 Mouth of Niagara River NY / ON
33:00 Leaving U.S. airspace; entering Canadian airspace
33:08 Niagara-on-the-Lake ON
33:40 Mouth of Welland Canal ON
33:50-34:50 St. Catherines ON
35:25-37:45 Queen Elizabeth Way through Grimsby & Stoney Creek ON
38:15-38:35 Hamilton ON
39:00 Hamilton Airport (YHM)
41:45-42:40 Paris ON on Grand River
44:21 Final approach to ORD
47:30 Landing on runway 27L

Link to this flight as tracked and mapped by Flightaware:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAL1605/history/20120107/1820Z/KBOS/KORD

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Tags:

• aerial view
• view from plane
• takeoff
• landing
• flight
• Downtown Boston
• Thompson Island
• Squantum
• Quincy MA
• Hough's Neck
• Nantasket Beach
• Hull MA
• Cape Cod Bay
• Gloucester MA
• Wingaersheek Beach
• Massachusetts
• Essex Bay MA
• Ipswich MA
• Newburyport
• Merrimac
• Haverhill MA
• Neatahwanta
• Fulton NY
• Oswego NY
• Lake Ontario
• Sodus Point
• Sodus Bay NY
• Kent NY
• Newfane NY
• Niagara
• Welland Canal
• St. Catherines
• QEW
• Grimsby
• Stoney Creek ON
• Hamilton ON
• YHM
• Paris Ontario