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Tuesday’s total eclipse of the sun thrilled millions of skywatchers in the Pacific Ocean region — including 163 passengers aboard a flight from Alaska to Hawaii, who witnessed the spectacle from an altitude of 37,000 feet (11,000 meters). I was one of those lucky airborne observers. Nearly a year ago, I approached Alaska Airlines with a proposal: alter the company’s regular Anchorage-to-Honolulu flight plan on March 8, 2016, and delay takeoff by about 30 minutes, in order to place the aircraft — a 737-900 — in proper position to rendezvous with the moon’s shadow as the solar eclipse tracked eastward over the North Pacific Ocean. - See more at: #
