Hurricane Sandy and air traffic over New York...lack of.

[RogerS]

Just thought I'd take a peek at flight radar to see what the effect looked like of closing the airports around New York. Eerily quiet. Normally around this time (10.00pm UK time) the skies are teeming.



At anyone time they reckon there are 7000 aircraft in the air across the US.

The white labelled aircraft is a BA flight inbound to Tampa, Florida and flying at 38,000 feet. Hope hurricanes don't go that high! It looks mighty lonely.

 

[Jensmith]

My fiancé just got back on Sunday morning from a work trip to the US (California). If he'd been a day later or the hurricane was moving faster he'd have been stuck in Philadelphia (his connection airport). Glad he wasn't!

 

[Sportique]

Cloud tops in hurricanes readily exceed 38,000ft and nearer the Equator they will easily break the 50,000ft level.

HTH

Dave

 

[gregmcateer]

Pretty amazing view!

(I assume the picture comes from the hijacker's where-to manual)

 

[RogerS]

It's from this website http://www.flightradar24.com/

 

[houtslager]

(I assume the picture comes from the hijacker's where-to manual)



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