Photo Challenge

[Nitrus]

Here's how I got all the info I had before posting this thread:

First of all, I looked at the EXIF data of the photo which gave me the date/time of the photo (03/08/2009 15:22PM) and the longitude and latitude of where the photo was taken. I looked up the lat/lon on Google Maps and found this:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s...8&t=h&z=19

This told me that the flight was departing from the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the marker is very close to a particular gate so I went onto the airport website and obtained a map which is here:

http://www.atlanta-airport.com/docs/terminal/d.pdf (Google Maps told me it was Concourse D)

From that map I concluded I was looking for a flight departing from gate D1A, assuming the lat/lon was correct. Next I googled for a website which could show me past flight details. I found this website:

http://www.flightstats.com/go/FlightStat...Airport.do

Using this website I searched for flights leaving that airport between 3 and 4pm, I was presented with a massive list and found a couple of flights that could be correct. I decided to find out which airline the flight was on before going further. I noticed the wi-fi sticker and did some googling and found this website, which rates the speeds of airline wi-fi:

http://www.kayak.com/wifi/airlines

From this I had a shortlist of airlines which I could move forward with. I saw the flight attendant with her uniform in the photo and did some more googling and found this website, which catalogues airline uniforms over time:

http://www.uniformfreak.com/

From this website I looked at the uniforms of all the airlines on my shortlist, and concluded that it was Delta airlines:

http://www.uniformfreak.com/1delta.html

At the bottom of the above page is the most recent uniform and the distinguishing red band behind the cuff on that website and on the photo gave it away. Once I knew it was Delta I narrowed my search on flightstats.com and found this flight:

http://www.flightstats.com/go/FlightStat...umber=5121

From Atlanta, GA to Panama City, FL. It fits the time the photo was taken and assuming it was the correct flight, I moved forward. The next thing I did was try to determine which plane the flight was using, I have only managed to narrow it down to two:

http://www.delta.com/planning_reservatio...t/crj-200/
http://www.airliners.net/aircraft-data/s...ain?id=109

I obtained both of those planes, by searching for flights from Atlanta to Panama City in the next 3 days on Delta airlines, ensuring the flight duration was roughly the same as the flight detailed above. Both of those planes featured on all the flights on that route over the next few days, and I have assumed that one of those planes was also used on the date in question.

**For those that don't know EXIF data can be viewed on Windows machines by right-clicking a photo and clicking "Properties" the amount of data stored depends on the camera. The photo we're concerned with was taken with an iPhone which is why it stored the lat/lon data.