We know that on the Internet we can find an app or web page for almost anything you can imagine, and today we are going to tell you everything about one that has become popular in recent days after the media trip of Nancy Pelosi, the president of the House of Representatives. from the United States, to Taiwan called Flightradar 24.
Flightradar 24 is a free platform that shows real-time information about air traffic around the world. It collects information about speed, position, height and heading among other things. It does this through its network of 30,000 receivers distributed throughout the world that collect the information offered by the automatic dependent surveillance systems (ADS-B), which are carried by the vast majority of aircraft.
In addition, Flightradar 24 combines this information with data from satellites and the US Federal Aviation Administration to be even more precise. Therefore, it practically has a record of any commercial or private flight in the world, unless the owner of the ship asks ADS-B to delete his information.
Why has it become popular in recent days?
From take off to touchdown, 2.92 million users followed at least a portion of SPAR19’s flight between Kuala Lumpur and Taipei, with 708,000 following as the flight landed. Both are Flightradar24 tracking records.
— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24)
In case you didn’t know, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, has traveled to Taiwan as part of her Asian tour, but this action annoyed China, which saw it as a provocation and as a consequence they withdrew a military operation with fighters. , drones and even warships within the air and sea territories of the island.
In a few hours, the tension had escalated to very high levels, since at the same time that the plane carrying Pelosi was approaching Taiwan, the Chinese military deployment was also doing so. This situation caused around 2.9 million people to connect at some point during the journey between Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and Taipei (Taiwan) to the Flightradar24 page to see if something happened and if the plane reached its destination, they would which was the historical record for the platform.
The page itself points to the moment of landing as the most viewed of the journey, since it accumulated more than 708,000 visits while Pelosi’s flight descended. Without a doubt, this has been the most viral moment of Flightradar24, but it is not the only time that the page has been used to follow celebrities, as far as Spain is concerned, the flight that brought King Emeritus Juan Carlos I from United Arab Emirates to Spain could be followed from the platform.