Flightradar24

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Popular flight tracker strains under interest in Pelosi's flight (Malaysiakini)

The popular flight tracking service Flightradar24 is straining to keep up with public interest in the aircraft said to be carrying US House of ...

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Flightradar24 down: Live plane tracking site goes offline as people ... (The Independent)

Flightradar24, the plane tracking website, has gone down. Users were shown an error message that joked that the website had been “cancelled” in the same way ...

A range of online trackers have been using publicly available data to chart the private flights of figures such as Taylor Swift, Drake and Kylie Jenner – leading to criticism of the vast amount of pollution emitted for their often very short flights. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. In response, a user had asked whether the site was able to handle such a huge amount of interest.

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Flightradar24 Goes Offline Briefly As Nancy Pelosi Heads To Taiwan ... (NDTV)

Flightradar24, the plane tracking website that offers live updates about planes in the air, stopped working briefly on Tuesday, according to a report in ...

It tries to keep Taiwan isolated on the world stage and opposes countries having official exchanges with it. Beijing considers self-ruled, democratic Taiwan as its territory and has vowed to one day seize the island, by force if necessary. Because of unprecedented sustained tracking interest in SPAR19, Flightradar24 services are under extremely heavy load.

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How FlightRadar24 Helps People Track Nancy Pelosi, Taylor Swift ... (VICE)

FlightRadar24 uses open-source data and has repeatedly been in the news over the last few weeks.

The site also receives live data in North America which is based on radar data and from the Open Glider Network (OGN), which is a unified tracking platform for small aircraft. Many users referred to the possibility of a war between the U.S. and China over Taiwan. MLAT is an acronym for Multilateration, which is used by FlightRadar24 to help locate planes that don’t have ADS-B receivers. People were watching the flight's progress on FlightRadar24, a flight tracking site that uses open-source data to track flights. ADS-B stands for automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast, which is a technology that allows an aircraft to be tracked through satellite navigation or other sensors. More than 320,000 people were tracking the flight path of the U.S. military plane believed to be carrying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi this morning.

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FlightRadar24 suffers temporary disruption due to high interest in ... (Livemint)

Leading online flight tracking service FlightRadar24 said that “some users" were unable to access its website due to an “unprecedented sustained tracking ...

In an earlier Twitter post, FlightRadar24 said that 200,000 people were live tracking the SPAR19 flight. “Flightradar24 services are under extremely heavy load. Flightradar24 services are under extremely heavy load.

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SPAR19 becomes the most tracked flight of all time | Flightradar24 ... (Flightradar24)

Aviation news comes quickly, so join more than 600,000 others who receive weekly aviation industry and flight tracking news from Flightradar24 direct to their ...

Flying through Indonesia more than 200,000 people tracked the flight and the numbers continued to climb as the aircraft neared Taiwan. Upon landing in Taipei, 708,000 people were tracking the flight. Our teams immediately began efforts to maintain the stability of our services. From the time it lifted off from Kuala Lumpur at 15:42 local time, SPAR19 was already the most tracked flight on Flightradar24 among active flights.

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Flightradar24 users track Pelosi's Taiwan flight as site faces crashes (Business Insider)

Flightradar24 said there was heavy interest tracking SPAR19 — the callsign of a US Air Force plane that was carrying Pelosi from Malaysia to Taiwan.

At the time of publication, it was unclear how many people were watching the plane as it made its final descent. When SPAR19 was just a few minutes away from landing, Insider was bounced from the server. At the time of the tweet, 345,000 people were tracking the flight.

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Nancy Pelosi's plane to Taiwan forces Flightradar24 to crash over ... (al.com)

So many people are interested in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's flight to Taiwan that a flight-tracking site crashed Tuesday due to the number of visitors.

There were as many as 632,000 people watching Flightradar24 as the flight entered Taiwan air space. “Our delegation’s visit to Taiwan honors America’s unwavering commitment to supporting Taiwan’s vibrant Democracy,” Pelosi tweeted after landing. “Flightradar24 services are under extremely heavy load,” the site said.

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