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I think flight 808 normally does go just south of LA. Someone posted a flight map the other day. But there is some credible info that a NOTAM in effect in that area where the video was filmed at that time.

Here is a map of where flight 808 was supposed to be at 5:00 PM PST.

However, the video was taken at 5:15. One would think a jet would cover the 35 miles from Catalina Island in less than 15 minutes. Plus leave a contrail all the way to the coast and beyond.

There was also this posted on a news site forum by a traveler.

RAW VIDEO: Mysterious Contrail Off Calif.
Lorrie Laible
I find it intersting that no one “claims” to know about this. Yesterday we were returning from Honolulu on Hawaiian Airlines with an arrival time of 3:25 pm at LAX. Approximately 270 miles away our pilot came on the speaker and told us we would be rerouted over Big Sur California due to military maneuvers in our path. Maybe they should speak with the pilot of our flight.
November 9, 2010 at 2:44 pm

I wonder what direction and what level was any jet stream near that course, or any unusual colder than normal temperatures.

And one more item, we need an actual picture of the aircraft, to see what color its fuselage is. Was it polished aluminum?

Wow, now we need to know what direction the filming guy was facing when he shot that video. I thought he was facing to the west. To catch flight 808, he would have had to have been filming to the SOUTH.

However, he said that when he filmed the event, that there was a plane flying by to the left of his shot. That would have been to the south, if he had been filming west, like I believe he was.