Spirit Over Mobile Bay

Spirit Airlines flight 2398 passes over Daphne’s May Day park late the morning of MAY 13 2025 while on a flight from Orlando to Houston. Captured at an altitude of 38,000 feet or about seven miles, the Airbus A320 moves at a ground speed of 413 knots or 475 mph during the roughly two hour twelve minute flight. Spirit received approval in February to restructure its debt, allowing the airline to emerge from bankruptcy as a private company. Photo shot from Fairhope, roughly nine and a half miles from the aircraft…