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Old 19th Jul 2023, 16:46
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Originally Posted by DaveReidUK
My scepticism is based on having recorded it on Mode S for a period on the day of the accident. If the Aztec had been where the flight trackers put it at the time in question, I shouldn't have been able to pick it up.

Could have been freak reception, I suppose, but I'm always a bit dubious about tracks constructed wholly using multilateration.
ADSB can be a bit odd too - RC-135 ZZ665 apparently stooging around over Croydon at 2 or 3000' at present - it isn't, I think it's probably in the Waddington vicinity after a hard day's monitoring in SE Europe!
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