On the way to baggage claim at DTW (Detroit Metropolitan Airport) last night, we saw Delta Flight #189 leaving for Beijing and got curious. The flight left on the 3rd of January at 9:39 pm EST and arrived on the 5th of January at 12:20 am. It is a fourteen hour trip from Detroit to Beijing, non stop.
When I checked the flight tracker on the Delta app on my smartphone around midnight, the plane was at 33,000 feet over Hudson Bay. Today it has arrived and, of course, it is now tomorrow in Beijing, since the plane would have crossed the International Date Line somewhere in its flight.
It is this kind of information that makes me realize what a great and wondrous world we live in. We were headed for the shore of Lake Huron, one of the world's large freshwater lakes, and the passengers on that plane were headed across the polar ice cap for Beijing, in China, on the other side of the planet.
Amazing.
Copyright 2013
Wanda Hayes Eichler
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