It tracked a US Air Force plane carrying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. It tracked a Delta Boeing 737 flying right into a hurricane. Here’s a look inside Flightradar24, the website that tracks every plane in the sky. ✈️
The plane, a military version of the Boeing 737 called C-40, departed from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia before embarking on a circuitous path to Taiwan, in order to avoid encounters with the Chinese military, adding hours of flight time. That didn't make it immediately obvious what the final destination would be, sparking online conversations as the plane slowly veered north towards the island. As a result, it was the most tracked flight of all time on Flightradar24, with 2.
Before Pelosi's flight, the record for the most tracked flight on Flightradar24 belonged to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's return trip to Russia, where he was due to be imprisoned. The January 2021 flight was tracked by 550,000 people, beating an earlier record set in April 2020, when almost 200,000 users watched a Boeing 777 draw the crescent and star symbols of the Turkish national flag in the skies above Ankara, to celebrate Turkey's 100th anniversary of sovereignty.
"Another use case are folks who are very interested in aviation, or really like to follow certain types of aircraft. They can also go to the airport, pull up the app and see what's coming. Then you have people who are professionally invested in the aviation industry, because they own an aircraft and they rented it out, or because they have a fleet of aircraft and they want to keep tabs on them. Finally, there are people who are professionally invested in having a lot of flight data.
"By finding islands wherever we can and making sure that we have receivers there," says Petchenik."But more recently we've turned to satellite based ADS-B receivers, to be able to better track aircraft over the ocean. However, the most predominant source of data is still our own terrestrial network."
Not all data is available for every aircraft, however, as that depends on the type of transponders and receivers involved.
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