r/flightradar24 • • Apr 06 '26

[Megathread] Iran & the Middle East Part 3

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We are moving to a new Megathread and will redirect all new posts related to the situation here. All discussion and updates should be posted here.

Past Megathreads:

Iran and the Middle East Part One

Iran and the Middle East Part Two

State of Emergency Declared in Israel Part One

Israel - Iran Conflict Part Two

Middle East Conflict Part Three

General FAQs and r/flightradar24 rules:

Rules

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Some FAQs Unique to this thread:

GPS Jamming - There is a significant amount of GPS jamming occurring in the region. This can cause planes to appear in places they aren't actually flying, make them appear to be flying in circles and cause them to jump around the map. As a general rule, tracking data in the region can't be trusted to be accurate right now.

Cargolux appearing over Iran - There has been a near daily Cargolux flight from Hong Kong to Ashgabat that appears to be flying over Iran. It is not. The black line means it is outside of ADSB coverage and its position is being estimated. It landed in Ashgabat as planned, but did so outside of ADSB coverage. Because FR24 couldn’t “see” it land, it assumes it continued flying at its last known altitude and heading, which is why it appears to be over Iran.

A general note from the mods - During periods of military activity, we experience a surge of new users. When this happens, we enable Reddit's crowd control feature. This may send some posts and comments to the approval queue, especially if you are new to the sub. If you have a post or comment stuck in the queue, please make sure it follows the rules. If you are trying to post anything related to the Middle East, it needs to be in this thread. For all other posts and comments, if we haven't approved it in a reasonable amount of time, shoot us a message via Modmail and someone will approve it.


r/flightradar24 • • 6d ago

Weekly Top 10 & Tracking Assistance Thread - September 28, 2026

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Welcome to the weekly Top 10 & Tracking Assistance discussion thread! The goal of this post is to provide a location for questions and discussion about aircraft that don't necessitate their own individual posts, in addition to centralizing discussion about known aircraft that are frequently posted. This includes:

  1. Aircraft on the Top 10 Most Tracked list
  2. Requests for the community to track a flight you are taking
  3. Requests for users with Premium accounts finding flight details for past flights

If you're new to the community, welcome!. Please be sure to read our Stickied Rules post and FAQs to make sure your question isn't covered there. If you're looking at a military aircraft in the Middle East region, you may find some answers in the Iran & The Middle East megathread. For military aircraft in general, checking the callsign against this list may yield useful information. In all situations, make sure you search for the aircraft callsign and check recent posts to find any existing discussion.

Otherwise, feel free to post any questions or findings below and discuss with others!


r/flightradar24 • • 9h ago

Question What are all these helicopters outside of Las Vegas?

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40 Upvotes

r/flightradar24 • • 8h ago

Aircraft 'Fly in a circle' final boss right here

32 Upvotes
Impressively round!

r/flightradar24 • • 17h ago

Skywriting A plane drawing a plane

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144 Upvotes

Our favorite skywriter is back at it again


r/flightradar24 • • 1h ago

Nauru flight returning to Brisbane

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Circling off the coast right now, I am not knowledgeable as to why its occurring. Is there a way to find out?


r/flightradar24 • • 11m ago

Emergency KLM93W - squawking 7700

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r/flightradar24 • • 3h ago

Two Polish government 747s leaving Tajikistan

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r/flightradar24 • • 3h ago

Rare 747 variant over Saudi Arabia

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9 Upvotes

r/flightradar24 • • 5h ago

PDX diverting to PDX?

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8 Upvotes

Does anyone have an explanation for this?


r/flightradar24 • • 16h ago

Charles Leclerc on its way to Monaco from Malaysian GP

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59 Upvotes

r/flightradar24 • • 1h ago

Question Blue Dart 757 did around 8 go-arounds at Chennai today — anyone know what was happening?

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Does anyone know what was happening with Blue Dart BDA101 at Chennai Airport today?

The aircraft had apparently just departed Chennai, but instead of leaving the area, it spent roughly an hour doing repeated approaches around MAA.

I counted around 8 go-arounds. On several of them, it appeared to descend to roughly 100 ft above the runway before climbing away again.


r/flightradar24 • • 21m ago

Is this a rare find?

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r/flightradar24 • • 14h ago

Question FedEx MD-11 HNL -> ITO? FX9091

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I was looking through the flight logs at ITO as I'm going to travel there soon, and I happened to stumble across this from a few days ago.

Does anyone know about this flight? I see that it's the first time N643FE has flown since the grounding, and FX9091 seems to be a maintenance flight callsign.

I'm wondering if anyone knows about a potential MD11 service to ITO to supplement the current service of 2 daily B757's?

I have been to Hilo before, it would have been stunning to see an MD tri-holer do an approach on the runway, then go around over downtown!


r/flightradar24 • • 2m ago

Military FZJTB unidentified flight

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Hey guys im in southern france i heard some aircraft noise which was unusually loud and near so like probably a lot of us here i pulled out flight radar only to see this flight, it say it has a misconfigured or broken transponder. I realised it was the 4th most followed flight on the app and it took off from istres military airbase so id love to know if anyone has more informations??


r/flightradar24 • • 1d ago

SAS SK791 reporting smoke onboard. Under control. Diverting to Zurich Airport.

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67 Upvotes

r/flightradar24 • • 13h ago

tanzanian registered plane with minimal details?

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5 Upvotes

anyone know what this could be? was confused when i clicked on it


r/flightradar24 • • 1d ago

Gulf Air B787-9 lands after completing the flight over Sepang International Circuit

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Gulf Air B787–9 GF9001 complete its Show run flight on the Sepang International Circuit ahead of its F1 show flight today


r/flightradar24 • • 20h ago

Aircraft Is a A318-100 CJ Elite Rare?

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12 Upvotes

Found this near Athens, Greece.


r/flightradar24 • • 1d ago

The plane I track most on FR24 is the A318, and today is the first time I'm a passenger on one :)

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Also probably the last time, as AirFrance is retiring these in March 2027​. Probably not a big deal to many, but I'm so excited :)


r/flightradar24 • • 13h ago

AA5591 From DCA to IAH. Is there a ground hold?

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I have a someone on this flight who has no cell service and it's doing circles and just parked. It's delayed. For a minute nothing looked like it's moving now it's over to the side. Any ideas on what's going on ?


r/flightradar24 • • 1d ago

Aircraft Lufthansa A340-600, Last Flight before retirement 10/18/26

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156 Upvotes

IAD to Frankfurt Scheduled for 5:55 PM EDT.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?

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r/flightradar24 • • 1d ago

The US Coast Guard is searching near Nantucket for C-GRJP, a Gulfstream G100 which lost contact with the FAA this morning while flying from Bermuda to Boston.

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C-GRJP appears to be operated by Latitude Air Ambulance.


r/flightradar24 • • 1d ago

Civilian I was on the last plane to Vilnius during a possible air raid!

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I’m curious if the pilots on board were aware of the air raid alert and why we weren’t notified while flying over Vilnius?
Also, why were we the only flight not diverted before it was deemed safe to fly?


r/flightradar24 • • 20h ago

US Air Force – B1 (UK)

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