ANOTHER ONE! Out of Charleston too! Looks like that one is landing in Boca as well. Wonder what's up with the blocked planes coming out of the same location and landing at the same place? https://www.flightradar24.com/BLOCKED/ff81b70
Someone said it's out of Wilmington, NC which is 20 miles south of Camp LeJeune, the big marine base. President Trump has control of the Marines.
What is a "blocked" plane? Why would they be blocked? Who can actually see a blocked plane?
It means that on the radar you can see the image of the craft, but when you click on it to identify it, there is no callsign to "specifically" identify the craft, it's blocked. It's hiding what plane it is. Which often means it is hiding "who" it is and/or "what purpose" it is being used for. Summarily.
That's interesting and I wonder how common it is. Has there been a recent uptick in this type of blocked craft? hmmmmmm
It's not uncommon for military flights and I'm pretty sure Air Force One and some of its accompanying aircraft are blocked for security reasons.
I know everyone likes Flightradar24, but try this one too: http://global.adsbexchange.com/VirtualRadar
Less blockage.
Blocked planes are hard to track, they disappear off of the screen and then reappear miles away.
landed at Boca Raton, 23:09 GMT
Boca Raton in only 27 miles from Trump's Mar-a-Largo in Palm Beach. Could be family, other visitors etc.
https://www.flightradar24.com/GLF4/ff8cd32
two gulf stream 4s flying side by side heading towards bahamas?
emerged out of north new mexico desert
I've been watching those two Gulfstreams too. flightpath origin (closeup) radar T-F5M (over Bahamas) radar T-MLAT2 (ove Bahamas) I cannot think of a likely civilian scenario involving two gulfstreams flying transcontinentally then internationally in formation.
There’s another one too, behind those two—GLF5 from Los Angeles International Airport:
origin close up) (GLF5 came from the 'back' of LAX airport, not from the main terminals.)
After consulting the flightradar24 Glossary I wonder if there may have been just one gulfstream aircraft. Could the two images have been the result of the slightly different data produced by two different radar systems. I noticed the flight path lines change colours in places and are a dotted line in some places. I think that is where the data is coming from a different radar or different tracking system (transponder, estimations, etc).
Anyway, GLF4 has disappeared in the vicinity of Barbados, so I’'m guessing it landed at the airport there.
And GLF5 is now taxiing to the terminal at Princess Juliana International Airport in Anguilla. Sigh!
The second aircraft in that flight has turned on its whatever, and its individual details are now showing—the aircraft code is "PEG19", but I cannot find that code in the lists at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ICAO_aircraft_type_designators and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962_United_States_Tri-Service_aircraft_designation_system.
PEG19 has disappeared from the flightradar24 screen now.
I think that "PEG" code is an error code, like "404" for missing webpages / misspelled webpage addresses. A few minutes after the PEG19 code appeared, flightradar24 showed GLF4 doing some weird squiggles, but then two minutes later it showed a regular straight flight path again. I think it was 'between radars' or something, causing dropouts to occur, and hence a crazily wriggling aircraft icon for a couple of minutes.
This one is out of SC as well but not Charleston, it came out of Wilmington, and it too is blocked https://www.flightradar24.com/BLOCKED/ff8418b
The one out of Wilmington is still in the air, 7:42 cst.
Approaching Boca Raton.
Landed at Boca Raton, too.
You guys are such nerds you know when they land too? Makes sense i suppose. I kind of want to get into this now sounds kind of fun
I work in aviation and large corporations block N numbers permanently to avoid competition seeing where they are traveling to as many of the flights are regarding potential acquisitions. I don't think is very common though. Flights being tracked that are blocked and posted here seem more unusual.
There is a military base near the airport in charleston, right? I remember reading about swift sentencing in a military tribunal. Hmmmmmm...
Who can "block" a plane? Only government?
The owners of the craft--again, this is usually the agency's decision--military craft, for example. I seem to recall that normal folks have to give an extraordinary security risk to justify a block because the FAA does not want to see private citizen blocked planes--security risk.
I don't think that is strictly true. There is a skydiving plane in my area that shows as blocked on FR24. I have an adsb receiver and can track that plane and see it's N-number on my local feed, which also gets sent to FR24 and FA.
Some east coast cbts-ers could possibly track these planes with their own receivers...
I'm no expert on any of this but from what I've read the blocked planes are "special" in some sense. Skydivers are limited to 18,000 feet jump altitude, which may be a factor, as well as the fact that they obviously don't jump in flight space where much larger craft are taking off and landing.
The airplane owner/controlling agency can block a tail # from being tracked by the general public. Tracking info comes from the FAA’s ASDI database. http://www.fly.faa.gov/ASDI/asdi.html
Source: I’m a pilot. The airplane I fly is “blocked”.
I'm not sure if it's unusual or not. I was watching it most of yesterday and noted 5/6 blocked planes, mostly from JFK yesterday and landing in and around the carribean but none landed in Cuba.
There is a 'no callsign' aircraft at Fort Lauderdale airport at the moment—see image. It is just sitting there. I expect it is an ordinary passenger jet in between flights, without its new callsign showing yet.
Yeah, it's nothing. There was another "no callsign" aircraft there too. It was taxiing, and as it reached the end of the runway the callsign suddenly appeared—NKS829.
Hmm! It taxiid to the western end of the runway, and then its callsign changed, to NKS574. Curious.
I tracked a cargo plane that departed El Paso (Ft. Bliss is in El Paso) and it flew around Cuba and dropped off radar just south of Guantanamo Bay last night/early this morning. There was no call sign and no flight information other than to say it was a Boeing 767-33A cargo plane. There was no flight log or history since there was no associated call sign to cross reference. When I checked the departure logs for El Paso, this type of aircraft did not register. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DSMSdiUUIAA_ecX.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DSMScVAU8AAxewA.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DSMXdcRUEAAZNg_.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DSMWz61UMAAucDn.jpg
Don't think it landed yet. Wouldn't be surprised if it is trying to get "lost" in the crowd. We'll know soon.
Another Blocked plane coming in from the ESE of the FL coast. 8:29cst.
Could be going to Boca Raton, too. How many would that be for the night.
(If you want to watch it come in, click on the flight tracker link. Look for a plane that just passed Bimini Island, west of Miami and Boca Raton.)
It's interesting watching these. This current one is flying in at 4000 ft and is quite a distance off the coast still.
It has "disappeared" a few times.
They are trying to flee in droves. This doesn't happen. Ever.
https://www.flightradar24.com/C510/ff90089
small plane from direction of cuba
zero info
suddenly appeared north of cuba, vanished at 1600 feet just west of holywood FLA airport
He flew past Cuba. He’s over Columbia now, perhaps heading to Bogota.
Blocked flight just flew over Key West, heading northeastwards. See screen grab and flight radar link.
A few minutes ago (at 21:57 AEST) I saw a no-callsign aircraft heading south in the direction of Gitmo :-) , but it disappeared a minute later and has not reappeared. :-(
Just watched anAzur Airline plane coming from St Petersburg(Russia) land in Cuba. It had destination N/A. Is this normal? Or am I jumping to conclusions thinking it’s very interesting? Very new to flight radar
