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Old 6th Jan 2015, 14:29
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MrSnuggles
 
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I am sorry but...

PLEASE everybody, Flightradar24 is a nifty little gadget but it is no way useful for investigative purposes.

ManaAdaSystems says approx the same thing as me here: http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/5...ml#post8813007

FR24 bases its flightpaths on some signals from the actual plane and some calculations about its supposed position IF the airplane uses the same heading, speed and altitude as lats actual data point.

This is why you can see big deviatons if you zoom in around an airport - planes going straight that suddenly makes huge sidesteps. Fact is, it never did a sidestep, it flew according to its own plan, not FR24's algorithms.

All you can do with FR24 therefore, is to use it as an app that gives you a possible trend when the aircraft is in cruise. These are too many maybes to be taken as evidence if something truly occurs.
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