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 <b>...</b>
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