Holy Cow!
Hello. Didn’t expect to be writing this emergency Gene Pool.
We are flying west, from dark into daylight, and all the windows have been shuttered; flight attendants had asked for that, in deference to those who were trying to sleep. We had missed this request, and Rachel just idly popped her window open, and we both gasped. There was a blinding light.
In the plane, we have all been literally in the dark. Didn’t know where, exactly, we were.
Whoa!
The flight attended started moving toward us, admonishing.
Rachel snapped a couple of pictures before she was ordered to shut the window again.
This was one of the frames she just got:
According to the seatback navigator program, we are over southern Greenland. Those are mile-high mountain peaks, or higher, covered in ice and snow.
So we’re just sharing our unauthorized sighting.
Gene Pool Gene Poll:
To Hell with the directive for shutting the windows. Views like this are so rare. The glacier in the left foreground of the picture is spectacular.
I don't understand why sleeping passengers should have the right to keep others from looking out the windows. I've had this problem myself and I will still snap open the screen periodically to see what's going on outside, snap a few photos or look with binoculars. This image reminds me of what you can see when flying over Alaska (which we already own). The glaciers and how they flow together or the river channels and their meandering are fascinating to look at. One of the best reasons to fly, in my opinion.