Recent content by Cody Thomson-Esquer

My guess is Oahu would be the target with U.S. Pacific Command Headquarters here in Pearl Harbor so a landing on a different island might be a good option if the threat was real, probably the nearest as the launch to impact time is just under 20 minutes. Johnston Atoll is probably the closest...

And I just wanted to add the Dreamliner landed ten minutes ahead of schedule, right in the middle of as it was happening. The alert was issued at 0807 and it was not until 0820 that Emergency Management issued a clarification on Twitter. If it circled back before landing it did so before...

Aloha! I was reading this post because I was very curious myself as to how this all went down yesterday with ATC and arriving planes that were coming in. I live on the Leeward side on Oahu and most flights into HNL come in to land right over my backyard at about 3,000 feet up. In any event...