New updates are being added at the bottom of this story…….
Original story (published on August 02, 2022) follows:
Flightradar is a well known air route and flight tracking platform. It allows users to know in real time the live route for thousands of flights that depart daily worldwide.
The Flightradar platform recently took on special importance for many Americans due to the current complicated situation between China and Taiwan, pending a presumed visit to the latter by the speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Thousands of Americans were following the live route of a flight taken by Nancy Pelosi. However, Flightradar (FR24) servers crashed suddenly, so both the app and the website are currently down and not working.
Flightradar (FR24) app and website down or not working
Social platforms like Twitter are full of reports related to the issue. Apparently, the sudden crash of Flightradar servers while tracking the Nancy Pelosi flight has many concerned.
The Flightradar website and app server crash is also reflected on server status platforms like ‘Is It Down Right Now?’. Currently, all Flightradar tracking services are unavailable for everyone.
#SPAR19 might be heading towards Guam Base!
US Secret Tansport jet landed in landed in Taiwan few minutes ago!
Multiple unmarked Taiwan jets reached (ing) Guam Base
SPAR19 is a dud!
Watch out! For China’s Whining too Source
It’s possible that the Flightradar server crash was due to the many people tracking the Pelosi flight at the same time. However, this is not confirmed as there is no official word on the issue yet.
We will update this story as events unfold.
Update 1 (August 03)
10:49 am (IST): According to server status platform — Is it down right now — the recent outage with Flightradar has now been resolved. Also, we haven’t come across any fresh reports on Twitter.
Featured image: Flightradar on Twitter
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