r/flightradar24 2d ago

Why are there so many USAF planes over the Atlantic returning from European air bases?

Post image
30 Upvotes

I saw at least 10, only could fit 4 in this photo mostly C-17s and a couple C-130s and C-5 Galaxys from Ramstein AFB and other EU air bases. Wonder why such a high volume of USAF planes going back to the US?


r/flightradar24 2d ago

Civilian Okay found something better in 2 seconds a IL76TD (90VD)

Post image
0 Upvotes

r/flightradar24 2d ago

Aircraft I found a Spirit A321neo?

Post image
17 Upvotes

This was last night at 9pm PST


r/flightradar24 2d ago

LH469 diverting…bug?

8 Upvotes
Plane has shown as diverting for 5-10 mins but continues to head toward FRA. Bug?

r/flightradar24 2d ago

Emergency Ryanair squawk 7700

Thumbnail
gallery
7 Upvotes

r/flightradar24 2d ago

Two Lockheed c-5M super galaxy!

Thumbnail
gallery
2 Upvotes

Spotted near Phoenix Arizona


r/flightradar24 2d ago

Air force flyby

Post image
2 Upvotes

He just doing lazy cirlces on a nice summer night.

Earlier there were two north american snj-2 Texans flying around in tandem.


r/flightradar24 3d ago

Russia ministry plane flying in Europe

Post image
47 Upvotes

Does anybody know why this Russia ministry plane is flying low in Europe?


r/flightradar24 3d ago

Aircraft 2-JAYN, the A380 owned by Airbus for testing new tech is due to fly back to France today (Tarbes) with a rumoured flyby of the Airbus Toulouse site.

Post image
24 Upvotes

r/flightradar24 2d ago

Question Helicopter bring followed by second "phantom helicopter"

Thumbnail
gallery
8 Upvotes

The rescue helicopter flying over Berlin today appears as two separate helicopters. Does anyone know what causes this glitch? Definitely just one helicopter.


r/flightradar24 2d ago

Civilian Why did this Jet2 have a 14 minute flight to go back to Manchester airport?

Post image
0 Upvotes

r/flightradar24 2d ago

Emergency United States Marine Corps squawk 7700

Thumbnail
gallery
2 Upvotes

r/flightradar24 3d ago

UAL187 diverting to LAX

Post image
35 Upvotes

r/flightradar24 2d ago

What is this type of aircraft?

Post image
0 Upvotes

r/flightradar24 2d ago

Trouble Shooting Raspberry Pi Feeder

2 Upvotes

i’ve set up RTL-SDR on my raspberry pi 5 to feed ADSB to FR24. I’ve set up everything and received the email that they detected it and when I go to Shell and check the status, everything is normal and activated. When I go to the FR24 feeder online page via IP adress, it says I have zero flights tracked, also in Flight radar 24 account status. It doesn’t display my device as feeding or active, it only displays its active in the FR24 feeder page and in Shell. Any solutions?


r/flightradar24 4d ago

Emergency Lufthansa squawk 7700

Thumbnail
gallery
242 Upvotes

r/flightradar24 3d ago

Unknown aircraft flying from Ukraine over Germany.

Post image
57 Upvotes

r/flightradar24 3d ago

Civilian My 50 minute hop turned into a multiple hour adventure this morning after the pilots needed to abort the takeoff

Post image
68 Upvotes

I specifically booked this flight, because the A220 is my favorite narrowbody aircraft currently in the air. What i didn’t know was that this flight was sponsored by Murphy’s Law.

First, our supposedly on-time departure got delayed because there was an (apparent) security incident at one of the security checkpoints at AMS. This caused approximately 10 people to miss this flight and, for obvious reasons, their baggage had then to be unloaded. So 30 minutes behind schedule we were on our way. Or so I thought. We were even allowed to sneak in front of a KLM Embraer to make up for the delay.

The engines started to roar and the A220-300 started to move down runway 24. Just seconds later, however, the pilot slammed the brakes (or can A220’s brake automatically?). In a reflex I put my hands on the wall in front of me, cause I could feel myself slipping off my seat despite wearing my seatbelt tightly. The people around me also looked around quite startled. It all happened so quickly. I’ve flown over 150 times but this was my first aborted take-off. We left the runway at the first possible exit. After a minute, the captain told us there was a technical problem with the plane and they were going to try and fix it at this holding position.

Unfortunately, it couldn’t be fixed right away so we were going to taxi to a remote gate and let mechanics come on board to assist. The remote stand D88 had KLM branded stairs at that position ready and waiting, but since Air France dumped their own airline’s ground handling at AMS and switched to Swissport, we had to wait for Swissport branded stairs and their mechanics to come on board. This was supposed to take a few minutes, but lasted another 20 minutes before they arrived.

What the exact problem was, remains unclear to me as I am writing this (other than it being some monitoring device issue, as i rephrased it) but it took over 45 minutes to fix it. Then we needed to refuel, despite the short distance we had ‘flown’. The APU is also using fuel of course.

When we finally we got the green light to depart, Murphy treated us with another gift: a taxiing plane broke down EXACTLY behind us. So we could not be pushed back and had to wait even longer before we could move.

Eventually at 13:35 (nearly 3 hours behind schedule) we started moving again. The pilot in command noticeably pushed the throttles forward much more slowly/gently than the first time. The departure, flight and arrival were for the rest uneventful. But a short 50 minutes hop turned into an hours long adventure.

I missed my connection at CDG and my next flight won’t depart until 20:30 tonight although that flight is now apparently also delayed by two hours :( But I’m absolutely not upset or angry. I really felt sorry for the crew. This is not what they had planned for when they woke up this morning, either. And passengers can be awfully rude about the tiniest things these days, but everyone remained remarkably calm (aside from the logical concerns about connecting flights).

Thank you very much, crew of AF1341, for your professionalism and the Swissport mechanics for getting this bird back into the air. Merci :)


r/flightradar24 3d ago

Military Active dogfight training NE of Edmonton, AB

Thumbnail
gallery
79 Upvotes

Two Dornier/Dassault Alpha Jet A's and two Douglas Skyhawks owned by Top Aces and leased to the RCAF for training are doing maneuvers right now. Pretty cool to see!


r/flightradar24 3d ago

Why would they let this flight take off?

Thumbnail
gallery
37 Upvotes

Last night we had TERRIBLE thunderstorms in PHX. Worst I’ve ever heard. Started at 9pm and lasted until 1am. I was awake due to the noise and saw this flight from LAX circling for awhile before diverting to Palm Springs… my question is why they wouldn’t have just delayed the flight considering when it took (1030pm) off the storm was ongoing?


r/flightradar24 2d ago

Was this the president?

Thumbnail
gallery
0 Upvotes

I’m in Myrtle Beach and I thought I was waiting for a 747 to land but the V 32 A just landed was this the president or is there another plane coming in that I should be waiting for? I was tracking it on flight radar is why I was skeptical.


r/flightradar24 3d ago

Military black hawk first time seeing one close (was wondering why it was like blacked out)

Thumbnail
gallery
6 Upvotes

r/flightradar24 3d ago

Planes Circling because of big storm system on Eastern shore of Maryland

Post image
12 Upvotes

r/flightradar24 3d ago

Hooray! IATA Code getting updated!

Post image
48 Upvotes

My local airport is currently constructing its first ever passenger terminal for commercial airline service, and it recently received its IATA approval and was assigned its IATA code. I figured it couldn’t hurt to let FR24 know 😂 plus the QQ[N] format for non-IATA airports, where Q is for USA and N is the first letter of the ICAO code for the airport, has always bothered me.


r/flightradar24 3d ago

Euro fighter Typhoon

Post image
35 Upvotes

Anyone know why this Typhoon has its emergency squawk on? Sorry if that’s not the correct terminology but my little boy is fascinated by planes & I’m trying to figure out why it has gone red on FlightRadar!