Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
I do, too.
The strange thing is that we're not talking here about FR24-type "radar" (i.e. crowd-sourced ADS-B), with all its limitations. Instead, it's the official Heathrow Airport flight monitoring website powered by data from NATS radars.
Heathrow tells us:
See
Heathrow - track flights on maps
Notwithstanding the above endorsement, it's certainly not unknown for WebTrak to miss flights completely (a BA DUB departure and a UA EWR arrival in recent weeks, for example), but I can't remember any previous occasion where an entirely fictitious flight has been shown, as in this case.
Hence my professional curiosity as to what might have caused it.
Another one of Putin's little tricks; I'm convinced the Gatwick drone was one too.
He's got egg on his face after the Salisbury poisonings so he's trying to get back at us by economic means.