San Francisco-London flight UA901 with ATC audio: Takeoff, Sierra Nevada. River Thames 2015-08-18

A full-annotated-in-2021 B747 trans-Atlantic flight video--complete with air traffic control soundtrack, altitude, location, & flight-path information. Begins with taxiing & taking off from San Francisco International Airport runway 28R, passing the industrial city of South San Francisco and west of the San Francisco shoreline, before turning northeast for a view of the city's downtown Embarcadero district towers, Alcatraz, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, Mount Diablo, the Sacramento Delta, Lake Tahoe, Donner Lake, Reno, northern Nevada, southeastern Idaho, and Montana.

After crossing the Canadian border southwest of Regina, the flight continues northeasterly over the rest of Saskatchewan, then Manitoba, Hudson Bay, Far North Quebec and Arctic Baffin Island.

At daybreak, the course turns southeasterly above the North Atlantic between Greenland and south of Iceland. ATC exchanges can be heard as the flight enters the "Shamrock" airspace of Shannon, followed by NATS' "Scottish" airspace of Prestwick air traffic control zones.

Final approach descent begins over north and east London, affording views of central London landmarks: the Gherkin, London Eye & Westminster Palace (UK Parliament) along River Thames, and Hyde Park before landing to the west on Heathrow Airport's runway 27L.

(The video here is a newly reannotated edition of a previously annotated version which relied on You Tube's own annotation software; annotations on that version was erased by You Tube when it ceased its annotation support in 2019.)

Highlight of annotations (More descriptions appears on the video):
0:01-1:05 Duty-free & electronics merchandise at San Francisco International Airport
2:00-3:20 Passengers boarding UA 901
3:53-9:44 Flight-safety announcement
9:44 Pushback begins
10:30 Taxiing begins (to runway 28R)
14:36 Air Traffic Control (ATC) sound track begins
20:40 Takeoff run begins on runway 28R
22:15 South San Francisco, California
22:40-22:55 Colma, California (grave of Levi Strauss & other VIPs)
23:55-24:15 Lake Merced, San Francisco, California
24:50-25:15 Downtown San Francisco, California
25:20-25:30 Alcatraz Island (tiny island at bottom)
25:30-25:40 San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
25:45-26:05 Treasure Island, San Francisco
26:15-26:20 Angel Island (State Park), San Francisco Bay
26:35-26:55 Alameda Naval Air Station (closed), Alameda, California
27:35-27:55 San Pablo Reservoir (near) & Briones Reservoir (far)
29:30-29:40 Mount Diablo
29:55-30:40 Suisun Bay
31:00-32:20 Sacramento River
31:25-31:45 Rio Vista, California
34:00- 34:40 Sacramento, California
35:00-35:20 Mather Airport, Sacramento, California
35:45-36:00 Nimbus Dam, Fair Oaks, California
36:20-36:40 Folsom Lake
41:00-44:00 Lake Tahoe, California / Nevada
42:50-43:10 Donner Lake, California
44:45-46:15 Reno, Nevada
45:20-45:50 Reno-Tahoe International Airport (RNO)
46:00-46:05 Marina Park Lake, Sparks, Nevada
47:05-48:45 Pyramid Lake, Nevada
50:55-52:25 Winnemucca Lake
Winnemucca Lake is a dry lake bed lying in northwest Nevada. It is on the dividing line between Washoe and Pershing counties. Until the 1930s, it was a shallow lake, but was dried out by construction projects. (Wikipedia)
55:05-55:15 In-flight lunch
1:06:35-1:06:50 Drink & movie
1:07:10-1:07:40 Sloan Ditch, Montana
1:17:10-1:18:00 Missouri River east of Montana Highway 191
1:25:40 Crew request to lower window shades
1:26:25 Salt Lake Center handing control to Winnipeg Centre two minutes prior to entering Canadian airspace near Val Marie-Assiniboia, Saskatchewan
1:43:50- 1:44:25 Sample late-night big-screen entertainment footage
1:45:40 Last Montreal Centre instruction. Crossing the Atlantic.
1:45:41-1:46:20 Aircraft at position east of Greenland
1:46:30 Beginning of radio communication with Shannon air traffic control centre
1:48:15 Beginning of radio communication with Prestwick air traffic control centre "Scottish"
1:49:20-1:49:35 Scrambled eggs & sausage breakfast
2:06:30-2:06:50 River Conwy at Llandudno, Wales
Daventry ATC approach info to LHR 27L:
http://ivao.co.uk/atc/lacc/s28 on Heathrow Airport runway 27L
2:16:50-2:17:30 Cockpit landing announcement
2:34:15-2:24:40 Regent's Park, London
2:34:45-2:35:15 River Thames through central London
2:35:20-2:35:35 The Shard (across the Thames), 30 St Mary Axe (The Gherkin) & Liverpool Street, London
2:35:50 Waterloo Station, London Eye, Big Ben, Palace of Westminster (Houses of UK Parliament)
Site of March 22, 2017 Westminster attack
2:38:20-2:38:30 Hyde Park, London
2:42:35 Touchdown on 27L

Complete data of this flight from Flight Aware tracking:
http://uk.flightaware.com/live/flight...

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