Airplanes passing overhead way up high in the sky. Where is that plane going?

Perfect day here in Connecticut. Just sitting on my back deck and not watching NFL football. Bonus summer day even though it's officially Autumn now. Yesterday I had gone to the Big E fair in Springfield, MA and ate pounds and pounds of deep-fried things that I never should have eaten. But at least I washed it all down with beer and cider.

Mowed some lawn which is surprisingly still lush and green for this time of year. Some leaves are falling but not many.

But what I did mostly was look up at the deep blue skies where I saw plane after plane passing overhead at 35,000 feet. Skies are so clear that I can make out the entire plane with the naked eye and white contrails flowing behind it. These planes are 7 miles up in the air!

Now I'm in the flight path sometimes for LaGuardia and those planes are usually about 15,000 feet up with no contrails but I pretty much know where they are going. Also get some local traffic to the smaller private plane airstrips in the area. But I never realized there was so much action at 35,000 feet.

I often wonder where those planes are going. And where they are coming from. And who is up on those planes? Might be long forgotten about friends and family members. Might be a celebrity like Pat Benatar or Bobby Orr, the hockey player. Who knows who is up there in those airplanes just 7 miles over my house? Could be anybody, right?

I fly often myself and like to get the window seat where I can gaze down at the ribbons of highway from 35,000 feet up, trying to make out landmarks and such. Hard to do at such heights but every now and then, I'm able to pick out something that I recognize like the skyline of Charlotte, NC or one of the Great Lakes in the midwest. It's fun to look down from that height. Especially when I'm coming over the Rocky Mountains on an intercontinental trip or flying to Hawaii in which I like to be the first one to spot the tiny islands way off in the distance.

But anyhow, I wish there was a way I could figure out information about those airplanes flying so high over my house.

“Take this plane to Cuba!”e

It became a common event. I was in the Naval Reserve at that time, and we were told not to fly with our military id or anything that could connect us to the American Military.

After the Cuban Revolution:
April 10, 1959 A Haitian DC-3 is hijacked by six rebels. They fatally shot the pilot and forced the co-pilot to fly to Cuba.[8]
April 15, 1959 A plane is hijacked from Cuba to Miami. The hijackers were four members of Batista’s Army (three were from the SIM—the Military Intelligence—and one was an aviation mechanic). The airplane is returned by the U.S.[9]
April 16, 1959 A Cuban C-46 is forced to land in the United States by four men with guns.[10]
April 25, 1959 A Cuban Vickers Viscount is taken by four hijackers and diverted to Key West, Florida.[11]
October 2, 1959 a Viscount of Cubana de Aviación is hijacked on a flight from Havana to Antonio Maceo Airport, Santiago. The aircraft landed at Miami International Airport.[12]
1960s[edit]
April 12, 1960 A Cuban Vickers Viscount is hijacked by three crew members and a passenger, demanding political asylum in the United States.[13]
July 5, 1960 A Cuban Bristol Britannia 138 is seized by two co-pilots and diverted to Miami.[14]
July 28, 1960 The captain of Cubana DC-3 and two passengers forced the co-pilot out of the cockpit. The captain diverted the plane to Miami and demanded political asylum.[15]
October 29, 1960 Cubana Flight 905 is hijacked by the co-pilot who took an air marshal hostage. A shooting killed the marshal. The co-pilot and nine passengers involved in the hijack request asylum in the United States.[16]
December 8, 1960 A Cuban plane crash landed after five Cubans attempted to hijack the plane to the United States. A gun battle killed one person before the flight crashed.[17]
January 1, 1961 a Cuban Bristol Britannia is hijacked to the US.[18]
May 1, 1961 Antulio Ramirez Ortiz hijacks a National Airlines Flight 337 from Miami International Airport to Cuba.[19]
July 3, 1961 14 hijackers diverted a DC-3 to the United States.[20]
July 24, 1961 Eastern Air Lines Flight 202, a Lockheed L-188 Electra, is hijacked to Cuba.[21]
July 31, 1961 Pacific Air Lines Flight 327 is hijacked by a Bruce Britt Sr., demanding to be taken to Cuba. The pilot and a ticket agent were both shot by the hijacker, who was overpowered by the copilot and passengers while the plane was on the ground.[22]
August 3, 1961 Continental Air Lines Flight 54 is hijacked to Cuba. The plane is later destroyed in a suicide bombing the next year.[23]
August 9, 1961 Pan Am Flight 501 is hijacked to Cuba.[24]
August 9, 1961 On the same day, a Cubana C-46 experienced an attempted hijacking by 5 Cubans. Two guards on the plane tried to stop him. A gun battle killed the captain, a hijacker and one guard. The plane made an emergency landing in a sugar cane field.[25]
October 26, 1965 National Airlines Flight 209 is hijacked by a Cuban with a pellet gun. Wanting to rescue his family in Havana, he is taken down by the crew with axe.[26]
November 17, 1965 National Airlines Flight 30 experiences an attempted hijack by a 16-year-old boy armed with a gun demanding to be taken to Cuba. He fired six shots through the floor before being overpowered.[27]
March 27, 1966 Angel María Betancourt Cueto, armed with a pistol, tries to hijack a plane from Santiago de Cuba to Havana, with 97 persons, in an attempt to reach the U.S. The pilot, Fernando Álvarez Pérez, opposed the hijacking and landed in Havana. The hijacker then killed Álvarez and armed guard Edor Reyes, seriously wounding the copilot Evans Rosales. The event had a large effect on Cubans. The hijacker later was caught and executed.[9]
August 6, 1967 A Aerocondor C-54 is hijacked to Cuba by five Colombians.[28]
September 9, 1967 An Avianca DC-47 was hijacked by three passengers to Cuba.[29]
November 20, 1967 Louis Gabor Babler, born in Hungary, successfully hijacks a Crescent Airline Piper Apache from Hollywood, Florida to Cuba; the plane was scheduled to go to the Bahamas.[30]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cuba%E2%80%93United_States_aircraft_hijackings

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