"Tuno" wrote in message
oups.com...
My wife and I recently relocated to Manhattan Beach, CA, a few miles
south of LAX. Having flown in and out of LAX dozens of times in the
last few years, I'm familiar with the pattern for east-bound aircraft
-- take off to the west over the ocean, turn south out over the water,

Take off into the wind. There's a good chance the prevailing winds are from
the west, so most take-offs would be toward the west. If the wind was from
the south on Monday night, they would have taken off to the south.