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Tracking Santa’s Flight with Flightradar24
Just in time for Christmas, Santa’s sleigh is out of the workshop and upgraded with the latest ADS-B transponder and elf-designed cabin interior for a long night’s work. Rudolph’s anti-collision beacon...
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2016 Flights in the News and Our Most-Tracked Flights
As the year comes to a close, we look back on some of the flights that made news this year. Some of the most-followed flights marked the beginning of a long journey —like the first flights of the 737...
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New Flightradar24 ADS-B Receivers Activated in December 2016
To close out the year, we activated about 100 new receivers helping us track 4,303,978 flights during the month of December. New receivers activated this month are filling important coverage gaps and...
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Celebrating the 2016 Flightradar24 Milestones
2016 was a very busy year at Flightradar24 as we launched the new version of the website and continued on our quest for global ADS-B coverage. We added thousands of terrestrial receivers, an autonomous...
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Flight 666 to HEL on Friday the 13th
This afternoon in Copenhagen, Finnair flight 666 departed for HEL during the 13th hour on Friday the 13th. It landed safely in Helsinki 1 hour, 15 minutes later at 13:31 UTC. The aircraft that operated...
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Flightradar24 Data Regarding EgyptAir-Air France Incident, 1 January 2017
On 1 January, an EgyptAir Cargo A300 and Air France A320 passed close enough over Belgium that Belgian and French authorities are investigating what the French Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses (BEA) has...
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Crash of MyCargo/ACT Airlines Flight TK6491 and Additional ADS-B Data
A MyCargo/ACT Airlines 747-400F operating for Turkish Airlines as flight TK6491 crashed while attempting to land at Manas Airport (FRU/UCFM) in Bishkek. Media reports and images from the scene indicate...
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Flightradar24 Data Regarding the Crash of PR-SOM
A Beech C90GT King Air registered PR-SOM crashed near Paraty, Brazil on the afternoon of 19 January 2017. Flightradar24 did not receive enough positional information from this flight to create a track,...
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The Best Avgeek Videos We Saw This Week
As the weekend comes to a close, here’s a look at the the best avgeek videos we watched this week. From early 1990s planespotting to brand new aircraft being tested, with a Northern Lights spectacular...
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Adding Routes to Flightradar24 Airport Data Pages
Want to see where all the flights from an airport are flying? With the new Routes tab on our airport data pages that information is just a click away. See where flights from a single airport will fly...
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Welcome to the All-new JetPhotos
After months of work, we’re proud to announce the all-new JetPhotos! Redesigned with a focus on photography and photographers, the new JetPhotos makes it easy to browse the largest collection of...
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New Flightradar24 ADS-B Receivers Activated in January 2017
We began the year with some exciting new receiver installations. Those, and the over 100 other new receivers activated in January, helped us tracked over 4.3 million flights in the first month of the...
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Qatar Airways Inaugurates the Longest Route in the World
When Qatar Airways flight 920 takes off tomorrow from Doha on its 16 hour 20 minute journey to Auckland, it will take the title of the world’s longest route. The return flight, at 17 hours 30 minutes,...
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Air Canada’s New Livery and How to Track It
Air Canada unveiled its new livery yesterday, repainting an initial three aircraft for simultaneous events in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. The airline painted a 787-8 and two A321s, all three of...
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LX40—a New Engine in Iqaluit
On 1 February, Swiss International Air Lines flight 40 experienced an issue with its number 1 engine—the engine on the left side of the aircraft—and diverted to Iqaluit in northern Canada. After flight...
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The MAX writes ‘MAX’
Yesterday, Boeing took one of its 737 MAX test frames for a nine-hour endurance test. Instead of flying around in circles for nine hours, they decided to do something a little different. Because the...
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Jet Airways Flight 118 Escorted by German Air Force, 16 February
While en route to London over Germany on 16 February 2017, Jet Airways flight 9W118 lost communication with air traffic controllers for a short period. As is standard procedure, the German Air Force...
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NASA Completes ATD-1 Flight Testing
NASA, Honeywell, Boeing, and United Airlines spent the month of February testing a new technology that could enable more aircraft to safely land at an airport in a given time period. The tool, Flight...
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New Flightradar24 ADS-B Receivers Activated in February 2017
We added 100 new receivers in February, which helped us track 4.1 million flights during the month. We’re adding receivers that help close existing coverage gaps and we closed a few significant gaps in...
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French ATC Strike to Affect Flights, 6-10 March
French Area Control Centers participating in strike action between 6-10 March A multi-day strike by French air traffic controllers in the Brest and Bordeaux area control centers (ACC) will affect...
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