According to Plainsradio, the POE was NOT Hawaii.
How do you assume it was a nonstop flight from Africa to Hawaii. And where do you get that WE think that?
How about using YOUR brain.
We have had this discussion a few times also. You get from Africa to the US on BOAC (British Overseas Airlines); you go to either New York City or Vancouver BC and connect--usually, the Vancouver BC connection is through Seattle.
You can also speculate that the connect on which he is tripped up by this issue is the return from Indonesia which might have been any one of the West Coast POE's.