According to data from Flightradar 24, the flight carrying Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin was the most tracked ever. The photo was taken by Flightradar 24.
The flight carrying Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin from Scotland to London was the most tracked flight of all time.
The Royal Air Force Globemaster C-17 aircraft took off from Edinburgh Airport in Scotland at 5:20 p.m. on Tuesday and landed at RAF Northolt just over an hour later.
Around 6 million people tried to click in within the first minute of the plane’s transponder being activated, according to data from Flightradar 24.
The flight carrying the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II “shattered the record” for the most tracked flight of all time, nearly doubling the record set just last month by Nancy Pelosi on her flight to Taiwan, a news release from Flightradar24 reads.
Ian Petchenik said that the company expected it to be a very well- tracked flight.
“It was well tracked but much more well tracked than we thought it would be,” Petchenik said on the podcast.
Petchenik said that the flight was so well-tracked that it caused logistical problems for Flightradar24’s platform. The flight can still be tracked on the company’s website.
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The problem is that it wasn’t a lot. There were 6 million people.
He said that there were 200,000 people who wrongly tracked the Turkish Airlines flight. 600,000 people were successful before traffic calming measures were put in place.
In the first minute after it was active, 6 million people tried to follow the aircraft carrying the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II. On this week’s AvTalk, what we’re doing to make our infrastructure more robust to handle huge spikes in traffic. https://t.co/ivc561zgAa pic.twitter.com/jYjtlLQUcP— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) September 17, 2022