© Flickr/Creative Commons

Australia - A flight approaching Brisbane, the bustling capital of Queensland. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)

© Flickr/Creative Commons

Spain - Views from a Vueling flight from Barcelona to Malaga. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

© Flickr/Creative Commons

Australia - The magnificent—and these days, extremely fragile—Great Barrier Reef. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

© Flickr/Creative Commons

Qatar - Circling over Doha while preparing to land. 

© Reuters

USA - Leaving Winchester, Massachusetts, and flying west over the Atlantic. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

© Flickr/Creative Commons

USA - A very cold-looking Detroit River.  (Photo: Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

© Flickr/Creative Commons

Canada - Fraser Valley, British Columbia, en route to Vancouver. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

© Flickr/Creative Commons

Myanmar - Flying into Yangon over a patchwork of paddy fields. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

© Flickr/Creative Commons

USA - The approach to San Francisco, California. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

© Flickr/Creative Commons

Kenya - Bound for the port city of Kisumu, somewhere above the Rift Valley. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC 2.0)

© Flickr/Creative Commons

USA - The summit of Mt Rainer, also known as Tahoma or Tacoma, in Washington state.  (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC 2.0)

© Flickr/Creative Commons

Chile - Landing at Lampa, in the rural zone northwest of Santiago. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

© Flickr/Creative Commons

Switzerland - The sugar-coated summits of the the Bernese Alps, seen during a flight from Copenhagen to Milan. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

© Flickr/Creative Commons

Taiwan - The shadow of the photographer's aircraft is cast on rice fields as it flies over Taitung county, eastern Taiwan.

© Reuters

USA - Circling the city after taking off from Washington, D.C. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

© Flickr/Creative Commons

Strait of Gibraltar - The Strait of Gibraltar, separating Europe from Africa. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

© Flickr/Creative Commons

USA - Taking off at sunrise over Bradenton, Florida. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

© Flickr/Creative Commons

Australia - Skirting the Gold Coast, Queensland. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)

© Flickr/Creative Commons

Canada - A frozen Lake St. Clair, Ontario. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

© Flickr/Creative Commons

United Arab Emirates - The view shortly after leaving Abu Dhabi. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

© Flickr/Creative Commons

USA - High above the Ventana Wilderness, located in the Santa Lucia Range along the Central Coast of California. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC 2.0)

© Flickr/Creative Commons

Bahamas - Heading southbound over the Abaco Islands. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

© Flickr/Creative Commons

USA - Lake Mead, located just outside Las Vegas, Nevada. 

© Reuters

Spain - Departing Palma de Mallorca over the Balearic Islands. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

© Flickr/Creative Commons

Austria - Low-lying clouds cover valleys between peaks in the Austrian Alps.

© Reuters

USA - The blue Bay of San Francisco, California. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)

© Flickr/Creative Commons

Canada - Flying over the Laurentide Ice Sheet, and another plane's mid-troposphere contrail and silhouetted shadow. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

© Flickr/Creative Commons

Germany - Following the meandering River Rhine. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)

© Flickr/Creative Commons

USA - The wide expanse of the bay on approach to San Francisco, California. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

© Flickr/Creative Commons

USA - The outline of Mono Lake, California. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

© Flickr/Creative Commons

Malaysia -

Passing over Sarawak, Borneo. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-ND 2.0)

See also: The mystery surrounding the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.

© Flickr/Creative Commons