Seen!

No particular theme today, but here are a few interesting shots from the last week or so.

Current Events

The night of July 4th is always a sight to behold from the tower, as the city becomes a carpet of fireworks. I shot this short video to give you a taste of it, but you'll have to take my word for it because the video really doesn't do it justice. From before sundown until when I left at one in the morning, there were fireworks going off all over the city. Incoming pilots remarked that it looked like a war zone.

As I write this on Saturday afternoon, the investigation has barely begun on the Asiana crash landing in San Francisco. I don't know anything more than what is publicly available on CNN and other media outlets. I can tell you that some aircraft that had been destined for San Francisco diverted to LAX when SFO was closed; here are shots of two of them, both aircraft types that we don't get to see at LAX from these carriers very often:

Air New Zealand 8

United 72

Seen!

Thanks to CG, we have a look at Fiji's new paint - and yet another A330.  Here are some more of CG's recent snaps:

For those of you in the States: Have a safe and happy 4th!
If you're not celebrating Independence Day with us, have a happy Thursday!

Night shot: Five of a kind

Wouldn't you know it: After last week's 4 of a kind shot, I came in for the midshift a couple of nights ago and snagged this one, with five passenger B747-400s in the C-10 alley. As before, four are lined up at the TBIT, but the fifth one can only been seen by its tail sticking up above the rounded roof of Terminal 4. Seen in the shot below is a second Qantas B744 at the other end of the TBIT, so we sorta had a six-pack that night. Speaking of the TBIT, here's a night time shot of all the pretty new lights: