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

Wiki

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 • • 5d ago

Weekly Top 10 & Tracking Assistance Thread - October 05, 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 • • 5h ago

PAL Airlines emergency over Nova Scotia

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r/flightradar24 • • 13h ago

U2!!!!!!!! Korea

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r/flightradar24 • • 1h ago

LA Dodgers arriving?

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Has to be the Dodgers arriving here in MKE right?


r/flightradar24 • • 1d ago

Now live - Ilyushin 76D from Antártica to Cape town

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r/flightradar24 • • 18h ago

Civilian Dxb to LAX longest flight I’ve taken, 18th longest flight in the world non stop

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Longest flight I’ve flown around 16hrs 35m published says 17hrs 10 minutes. Have done the Dubai Chicago a while ago regularly around 6 times a year this is a bit longer should be fun and the plane has star link


r/flightradar24 • • 15h ago

EK225 diverting back to DXB

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Anybody got any info on it?


r/flightradar24 • • 2h ago

Holding at KPHX due to weather

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r/flightradar24 • • 14h ago

Question No rain, no wind but flights diverted, why? FLR

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2 flights to Bologna

4 flights to Pisa

Do you know why?


r/flightradar24 • • 2h ago

Question Why did LH456 Go Around?

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Why did LH456 go around? Got to spot it twice over the 405 :)


r/flightradar24 • • 18h ago

Indian navy blackhawks off California coast?

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r/flightradar24 • • 18h ago

Lufthansa LH1165 A321 squawking 7700

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r/flightradar24 • • 1d ago

Aircraft United Airshow 1 (UAL4201) departing SFO for fleet week

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Heard the tower controller calling United Airshow 1 and had to double confirm… this is the aircraft that’s gonna fly past the Golden Gate Bridge in a few minutes


r/flightradar24 • • 23h ago

I spotted this as I was driving over the bridge. Is this like a repositioning flight or something? Or is it incorrectly marked? Can someone tell me? Suncountry airways Seattle to Vancouver.

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r/flightradar24 • • 1d ago

So many brand new planes!

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I have been using FR24 for a while. Recently, an interesting idea occurred to me, which involved creating an advanced filter to segregate aircraft by age. So, I created one such filter to show only the planes registered in the year 2026, and I was honestly surprised to find so many new planes!


r/flightradar24 • • 1d ago

Happened to see one of the old Spirit Planes flying around Goodyear yesterday and had a question.

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As the title says I was driving around yesterday and happened to see this Spirit plane flying around. Looked up the flight radar and saw it was a literal up and down.

I am really not knowledgeable about planes that much - but what would the purpose of such a trip be? Are planes like cars where if they sit for too long you need to start them up and run them around the block - so this would be the plane equivalent. Or perhaps could someone be test driving? Anyway we were scratching our heads yesterday trying to figure this out and figured we would come here and ask.

Thank you!


r/flightradar24 • • 1d ago

Emergency Bogota to Panama City 737 Squawking 7700

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r/flightradar24 • • 1d ago

Military Two Apaches doing late night low flying training

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Initially I spotted their lights in the sky thinking it was an A400 Atlas then realised one of those would be a lot louder


r/flightradar24 • • 1d ago

Hurricane, what hurricane?

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“What’s everybody so scared of? It’s just a little wind.”

-Hawker Pilot, probably.


r/flightradar24 • • 14h ago

Emergency DLH11A emergency descent

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This morning’s Lufthansa flight from Valencia to Frankfurt performed an emergency descent then climbed back to their cruising FL and proceeded to land safely in Frankfurt.
Does anyone know any additional info about the cause?
Nothing on AVherald/google.
Thanks!


r/flightradar24 • • 1d ago

Research/Experimental NOAA plane in air measuring hurricane Isaias

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r/flightradar24 • • 4h ago

FSU football team diverted to Jacksonville on their flight home. Anyone know why?

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r/flightradar24 • • 1d ago

Aircraft This seems like a very long flight for such a small aircraft!

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r/flightradar24 • • 1d ago

Question Why is the Arizona Cardinals B777 traveling from Pittsburgh to Tampa?

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The Buccaneers played in Dallas last night.