I thought this was Detroit 🔫 💥 😂

that was people's response to the city councils decision to Ban fireworks in the city 😅

You can tell the difference when you get to the Inglewood Lenox Hawthorne area 😂

bro that must be unreal

I feel bad for anybody that had to work that day.

I love how you can easily tell the residential areas apart from the commercial/industrial areas based on where the fireworks are going off.

South LA don't mess around on 4th of July 😂

Thanks. I wondered how it looked up above my apt. WOW!! BECAUSE IF YOU COULD HEAR IT!!! IT SOUNDED LIKE A WAR!! WAY CCOL!!

Super cool! Amazing

That's a spectacular sight. What an experience it must have been.

That looks like a green laser flash @0:13 top right quadrant of the video?

10:00 At this point, the pilots must IFR into LAX due to smoke accumulating from fireworks.

Where are you flying from?

Cool video but didn't see many of the professional displays. Or else they simply aren't that visible from 5,000.- 10,000 feet agl?

I'd be curious to know at about what time that evening that this was recorded.

July 4th on Independence Day is my grandma Laura Geraldine Burke's Birthday!

Here's his flight path. He starts right above Ontario Airport. I'm going by landmarks seen on the center/bottomish of the video. 0:04 Top Golf - Ontario 0:50 Mountain and Holt - Ontario 1:25 Calvary Chapel - Chino (Amber Lights center/bottom) next to 60 fwy 1:55 Rio Rancho Town Center - Pomona (next to 71 running diagonally) 2:05 Phillips Ranch 2:30 Mt. San Antonio College and Cal Poly Pomona (center left and center right) 3:10 Woodside Village 3:40 Pacific Palms Resort (brought lights in middle of dark area) - City of Industry 4:15 Hacienda Heights (bottom half)/City of Industry (center) 4:40 Rose Hills/Turnbull Canyon (the big dark area) 5:20 605 and Whittier Blvd (bottom center), Whittier Narrows (dark area in center) 5:50 Rio Hondo Spreading Grounds (dark area) - Pico Rivera 6:15 area around the 5 fwy and the Home Depot - Commerce 6:35 Bell Gardens High School (bottom center) 6:48 710 fwy and LA River (dark area) 6:55 Maywood/Bell 7:05 Atlantic Ave, Florence Avenue at very bottom (Blvd Burgers) 7:25 Huntington Park 7:45 Northgate Market Shopping Center, South Gate (center bottom) 8:02 Franklin D Roosevelt Park, Florence-Graham (center) 8:15 zooms in to Florence and Central, USPS 8:40 110 fwy and Manchester 8:45 Algin Sutton Swimming Pool, center, brightly lit 9:00 South Los Angeles 9:35 The Home Depot/El Super - Inglewood 9:45 SoFi Stadium 10:20 405 fwy and Century Blvd

My town was one of the only ones that had zero fireworks. lol

End of fight club be like

Looks like Detroit or Chicago on Saturday night....

Haha. Woooooooooooooo! 🤩 That was really cool. I like how there's more going off in the hood than in Bel-Air. Thanks for posting!

The layer of fireworks smoke over the city is actually rather scary. Fine video.

Very cool video, the haze from the fireworks made the flashes look like rhunderstorms

Incredible video

Thanks so much for sharing this. Always wondered what it would look like flying over a major city on 4th of July night. I wonder what it would look like from space or the ISS. haha Great work here. Thanks again. Lifted my spirits.

I miss plane rides for the announcements after landing....😅 well over due fer1

HAHA! The twist: this is actually footage of any given night on the streets of LA! JK. This is very cool to see and I’m glad these folks are out celebrating and having a good time. Hope they were safe about it. Probably not worth the wildfire risk, but what are you going to do?

Applause. 😶. Respectively. Tanika Nakeya Lewis, 6127

Not a single legal firework in sight. Love it!

All the bright flashes tword the end are titanium salutes.

is this sped up? why the fireworks go out so quick?

I just sat absolutely transfixed and catatonic watching this video. Simply outstanding!!!

Look all those patriots!!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

You can tell where the Mexican neighborhoods are 🎆

Some of those were getting kinda close!

All that "thin, low cloud" you can see is actually smoke from fireworks. Yes it hangs around for days. Yes you can smell it for days, yes it messes your health up for days (especially if you have allergies anyway). Ask me how I know.

I live in the LA area. Anything that goes into the air is not only illegal to buy and sell and subject to a fine, but also expensive. Think like $50 to $100 a pop. Some of my neighbors couldn't understand how others could afford it with the price of things this year. It was somewhat subdued compared to other years... But it is always awesome

feels like blade runner all of a sudden

This is a great video.

10:15 Wow, that one was at about the same altitude as the plane.

Even more impressive considering that fireworks are illegal in Los Angeles, unless at designated fireworks shows.

That's why I love L.A., they know how to party!

Your pilots just logged combat hours

Exactly what I was looking for. We were driving down the 710 to Long Beach from the Dodger game and it was like World War. So much for an illegal firework ban. Explosions over the freeway the whole trip. Wild! Your video really brings it into perspective.

Kinda got a dystopia retro1982 film blade runner beginning movie credits vibe from this.

Cool video man!

Watching ILLEGAL fireworks is not something I’d boast about proudly. Those were ALL done in neighborhoods-where small animals are terrified by the noise, often to the point of DEATH (Chihuahuas in particular!). Many neighborhood fires often START due to irresponsible idiots using fireworks bought in Tijuana and brought into the States illegally or on the dark web from China. I had a neighbor who bragged about burning down a "bad neighborhood," during his use of illegal fireworks outside OUR properties! And here he was doing it again and claiming he caused a fire that killed several small dogs and almost one cat-thank G-d THAT neighbor was home and grabbed his child and their family kitty, Ozzy, a 17-year old beloved boy by the whole now demolished neighborhood. So please take this video down in respect of the firefighters who work hard to SAVE properties like those below, sometimes totally DEMOLISHED by irresponsible knotheads!

This video was very cool!!! Thank you!

Thanks for posting this. Really shows how everything looks from high up