Flight radar Aer Lingus

periodictable

Just see that EI104 JFK to Dublin has turned back west a couple of hundred miles off the Newfoundland coast.
Wonder what's going on?

http://www.flightradar24.com/EIN104

wretcheddomain

periodictable wrote: »

Just see that EI104 JFK to Dublin has turned back west a couple of hundred miles off the Newfoundland coast.
Wonder what's going on?

http://www.flightradar24.com/EIN104

They forgot to pick up the last remaining passenger.

CruelCoin

Bloody hell, well spotted.

My guess is on something minor like blocked toilets. Big no-no for long-haul.

How did you spot that, or were you just randomly clicking?

wretcheddomain

CruelCoin wrote: »

How did you spot that, or were you just randomly clicking?

He's an air traffic controller of course.

mutley18

I reckon someone had a heart attack, or else the pilot forgot to stop by Topaz for a bit of petrol and a muffin.

periodictable

I enjoy plane spotting, so www.flightradar24.com is constantly streaming on my computer. Like to see who's/what's overhead. I was curious to see where the Aer Lingus flights from N America were.

wretcheddomain

Gone off the map, something seriously bad has happened.

NegativeCreep

:eek: Are there really that many planes in the sky at once?!

Hank Scorpio

Flight just dissapeared

EB_2013

Would it be heading to Gander?

COYVB

sitting at the airport according to that site

SusieBlue

Is there a specific reason it might be after disappearing off the map other than something awful has happened?

EdenHazard

realistically nothing has happened.

Elbaston

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43GChXc6RVY

mutley18

SHOULD I ALERT THE AUTHORITIES?

wretcheddomain

mutley18 wrote: »

SHOULD I ALERT THE AUTHORITIES?

The Illuminati are off tonight as far as I'm aware, staff party I believe.

sdanseo

WhiteRoses wrote: »

Is there a specific reason it might be after disappearing off the map other than something awful has happened?

Yes, a number of reasons.

By far the most likely - it simply went out of coverage range or for some other reason isn't being tracked by the website.

I thought Flight Radar went by SBS boxes provided by home users but they have a lot of atlantic coverage so the data must come from elsewhere. Still, I've seen aircraft dissappear off it and then return, even over the continental EU.

They may take diverting a/c off the site for security reasons - it could be a security issue.

It may have simply diverted to another airport - most likely St. John.

Could be Radio/Transponder Failure.

Could be anything, and it's almost certainly nothing.

kneemos

mutley18 wrote: »

SHOULD I ALERT THE AUTHORITIES?

Dial 1800-MISSING PLANE.

sdanseo

Interesting. GTI621 also appears to have diverted.

rustedtrumpet

Holy mackerel theres some amount of air traffic when you zoom out. Kewil site

periodictable

rustedtrumpet wrote: »

Holy mackerel theres some amount of air traffic when you zoom out. Kewil site

Here's another great site where you learn many things you rarely get to hear about

http://avherald.com/

JONJO THE MISER

sdeire wrote: »

Interesting. GTI621 also appears to have diverted.

Thats 2 flights diverted, something is going on.

Hank Scorpio

Today is Sept 11th right? *pokes fire*

sdanseo

Back on the map. AT least according to FAA data, the yellow aircraft are realtime orange are not.

Does appear that it doubled back for 50 miles or so. Possibly a map glitch.

periodictable

Dublin airport arrivals indicate it's on time.

sdanseo

periodictable wrote: »

Dublin airport arrivals indicate it's on time.

If the plane had gone down, they're hardly going to put "lost at sea" on the arrivals board.

periodictable

sdeire wrote: »

If the plane had gone down, they're hardly going to put "lost at sea" on the arrivals board.

No. Delayed.;)

Spook_ie

mutley18 wrote: »

SHOULD I ALERT THE AUTHORITIES?

Not yet

http://www.flightstats.com/go/FlightTracker/flightTracker.do?id=308608846&airlineCode=EI&flightNumber=104

Fraggle Rock

Those websites aren't radar feeds so they're not very accurate. They rely on telecommunications position update data.

It's not what air traffic control uses. ATC use radar control out over land and out as far as about 250 miles off shore. Further out they use procedural control. That is, a plane must point x at time y at a certain altitude and stick to that plan. The checkpoints are lat/long e.g 52n/15w, 52n/20w etc.

That's why most aircraft travelling over the Atlantic do so in the same direction. In the middle of the night the flow is eastbound, in the middle of the day, its westbound. Keeps things simple.

Aglomerado

Damn, I shouldn't have looked at this thread. I think I've a new addiction.

Lad Of Banter

Aglomerado wrote: »

Damn, I shouldn't have looked at this thread. I think I've a new addiction.

The App is amazing, you can point the camera of the phone at the horizon & it will show you any airplanes in your line of sight, their flight nuber, destination, etc... and the 3d viewer is great, too

Aglomerado

Lad Of Banter wrote: »

The App is amazing, you can point the camera of the phone at the horizon & it will show you any airplanes in your line of sight, their flight nuber, destination, etc... and the 3d viewer is great, too

Ok. That's my day gone.

Sensor

periodictable wrote: »

Here's another great site where you learn many things you rarely get to hear about

http://avherald.com/

Friday Jun 21st 2013Transaven L410 near Los Roques on Jan 4th 2008, aircraft went missing and was found 5 years later

:eek:

Spook_ie

Lad Of Banter wrote: »

The App is amazing, you can point the camera of the phone at the horizon & it will show you any airplanes in your line of sight, their flight nuber, destination, etc... and the 3d viewer is great, too

Wonder if that explains the people who are waving phones around are doing at the back of Dublin Airport, always had them down as dogging weirdos!

Tar.Aldarion

NegativeCreep wrote: »

:eek: Are there really that many planes in the sky at once?!

ahem it's far more

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/09/18/article-2204838-151193E8000005DC-102_634x353.jpg

blaze1

Thats some site.

muppetkiller

blaze1 wrote: »

Thats some site.

Thanks OP there goes the rest of my work for today lol.

Matt_Trakker

periodictable wrote: »

I enjoy plane spotting, so www.flightradar24.com is constantly streaming on my computer. Like to see who's/what's overhead. I was curious to see where the Aer Lingus flights from N America were.

That wesbite scared the bejaysus out of me when I scroll out and had the entire pic of Europe.
Never flying again.

snubbleste

I thought everyone knew about flightradar and their ilk for years

Anyone clarify why this Turkish airline is doing 1000 mile zigzags in Canada?
http://www.flightradar24.com/THY3

AnonoBoy

snubbleste wrote: »

Anyone clarify why this Turkish airline is doing 1000 mile zigzags in Canada?
http://www.flightradar24.com/THY3

It's 9/11 isn't it?

Let the panic begin!

Peregrine

And just to ruin whatever is left of all your productivity today, here's the live air traffic control feed from Dublin Airport :pac:

http://www.liveatc.net/search/?icao=eidw

Lad Of Banter

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

And just to ruin whatever is left of all your productivity today, here's the live air traffic control feed from Dublin Airport :pac:

http://www.liveatc.net/search/?icao=eidw

amazing, have this on whilst watching the flight radar map.

i feel like Top Gun or something

Aglomerado

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

And just to ruin whatever is left of all your productivity today, here's the live air traffic control feed from Dublin Airport :pac:

http://www.liveatc.net/search/?icao=eidw

:cool:

anncoates

NegativeCreep wrote: »

:eek: Are there really that many planes in the sky at once?!

As a really nervous flyer, I really didn't need to open that link.

Looks like a fucking locust swarm.