Flightradar - Odd flight pattern!

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747 from Istanbul to Maastricht, currently off the coast of South Wales 🤔

Flight no is TK6319.

it's heading to Dublin now??

that's weird. way overshot Germany! Is it diverting or something?

There was a Heathrow to Bournemouth earlier in the week that went via Glasgow...work that out!

My theory is it needed to burn/dump fuel before parking up for months at Bournemouth.

Actually not Dublin, more Waterford and reducing altitude

It’s also dropping down in altitude

Using normal take off slots to send unused planes to odd airports to park them up?

Flightradar24 error, that's all. It doesn't know where the aircraft is going. It has taken a guess based on the flight number but cargo flight numbers often cover lots of destinations, unlike scheduled flights. Common to see cargo incorrectly marked in FR24

Blessed maybe, but you'd assume that a Turkish registered plane would park up in Turkey not Ireland assuming he'll land somewhere at some point

Checked the arrivals board, he's not expected at Maastricht

Odd, do you think the flight details are incorrect? Surely it couldn’t have flown from Istanbul since 10.19, even with the hour clock difference that isn’t enough time for that distance?

There was a Heathrow to Bournemouth earlier in the week that went via Glasgow...work that out!

Do you have any details? Flight number or aircraft reg? Day or even type of plane?

My theory is it needed to burn/dump fuel before parking up for months at Bournemouth.

That wouldn't be it.

The flight number is Istanbul to Maastricht, maasttricht to Shannon and Shannon to Chicago.
The next leg for the flight number is Shannon to Chicago. It’s supposed to be over Ireland

kili That's a pity, I was quite enjoying the "conspiracy" element of tracking it

Also did it say GLA in the heading or did it actually fly to GLA? It could just have been the guess work based on flight number. If it did actually fly to Glasgow rather than an error in the heading that is really odd.

kili it was a BA flight. DH spotted it - Mon or Tues he thinks.

it was a BA flight. DH spotted it - Mon or Tues he thinks.

Where did he spot it? At GLA? Or on FR?

It def said Heathrow to Bournemouth. It didn't land at Glasgow, just looped and turned back south.
He was looking at flights in/out of MCR and spotted it on it's "return" leg iyswim

on FR

That's not really an odd flight pattern, I've seen much stranger paths, believe me! I work in Aviation

The Swedish Air Force are in the North Sea with a refuelling plane near by at the moment.

My theory is it needed to burn/dump fuel before parking up for months at Bournemouth.

Doesn't sound right, more detail required.

There's a BA 777 leaving Gatwick now with no destination. I guess they are going somewhere to be parked up.

Odd, it’s at 7,000ft now.... where’s it going ?

It def said Heathrow to Bournemouth. It didn't land at Glasgow, just looped and turned back south.

That's interesting. BA moved 5 747's to Bournemouth this week. Potentially G-CIVP

Look at the flight path for FA20. Little Falcon having a whale of a time doing turns in the North Sea...

It's refuelling in Shannon presumably