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Flight radar Aer Lingus

  • 11-09-2013 01:49AM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 931 ✭✭✭


    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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,463 ✭✭✭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?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    CruelCoin wrote: »

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

    He's an air traffic controller of course.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,238 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 931 ✭✭✭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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    Gone off the map, something seriously bad has happened.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio


    Flight just dissapeared


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 811 ✭✭✭EB_2013


    Would it be heading to Gander?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,660 ✭✭✭COYVB


    sitting at the airport according to that site


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭EdenHazard


    realistically nothing has happened.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 443 ✭✭Elbaston




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,238 ✭✭✭mutley18


    SHOULD I ALERT THE AUTHORITIES?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    mutley18 wrote: »
    SHOULD I ALERT THE AUTHORITIES?

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,359 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    mutley18 wrote: »
    SHOULD I ALERT THE AUTHORITIES?

    Dial 1800-MISSING PLANE.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    Interesting. GTI621 also appears to have diverted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 339 ✭✭rustedtrumpet


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 931 ✭✭✭periodictable


    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/


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    sdeire wrote: »
    Interesting. GTI621 also appears to have diverted.

    Thats 2 flights diverted, something is going on.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio


    Today is Sept 11th right? *pokes fire*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 931 ✭✭✭periodictable


    Dublin airport arrivals indicate it's on time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 931 ✭✭✭periodictable


    sdeire wrote: »
    If the plane had gone down, they're hardly going to put "lost at sea" on the arrivals board.
    No. Delayed.;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,892 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie




  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21 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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,791 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 184 ✭✭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


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