Headed For Beaches of Mexico

American Airlines flight 492 passes directly over Gaillard Island in Mobile Bay at midday Thursday APR 24 2025 while on a flight from Chicago to Cancun. Captured at an altitude of 38,000 feet or about 7.2 miles, the Boeing 737 moves at a ground speed of 442 knots or 508 mph during the roughly three hour twelve minute flight. Photo shot from Fairhope, approximately 10.5 miles away…