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A Flight Radar one

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HelloVeritas · 18/10/2023 22:54

My husband is currently on flight CX251 from Hong Kong to Heathrow and I know I'm probably being silly but it's not following it's expected route at all.

I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation but if it continues on current route it will be aiming for Syria.

With everything going on in the news just now, can someone give my head a wobble!

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HappiestSleeping · 18/10/2023 22:56

Probably skirting around weather.

DogInATent · 18/10/2023 22:59

You can see the track of other aircraft on the same "lane".
It's going to bend north and follow the northern Turkish coast.

RainbowZebraWarrior · 18/10/2023 22:59

I don't know what it's intended flight path was, but it still looks like it's travelling on one of the main flight corridors from East to West so I wouldn't worry too much. It hasn't suddenly changed direction or anything.

As PP says, could be avoiding weather issues.

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DiscoBeat · 18/10/2023 23:00

Try not to worry. Planes change their route all the time due to weather eg. In the summer we landed at a different airport as first of all we were going round a thunderstorm and then to replenish that fuel we had to stop briefly elsewhere.

larkstar · 18/10/2023 23:00

It's doing what most commercial fights have been doing for the past year or so... avoiding flying over Ukrainian airspace.

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GoBackToPartyCity · 18/10/2023 23:00

it could be a glitch on flight radar. Look at AFR185. It’s taking the same path.

GoBackToPartyCity · 18/10/2023 23:01

Or yes, avoiding Russia!

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HelloVeritas · 18/10/2023 23:01

Ok thank you, hadn't considered weather - plane looks like it's heading to bloody Gaza!

He flies a lot so you'd think I'd be used to this by now.

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HelloVeritas · 18/10/2023 23:03

I knew you'd all be sensible and calm me down Smile

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gotomomo · 18/10/2023 23:05

At least I'm not the only one who tracks flights when gp is away for work (at least twice a month!)

DogInATent · 18/10/2023 23:05

Zoom the map out and look at all the other planes. You can see how they're tracking around certain areas, avoiding weather and trouble spots.

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HelloVeritas · 18/10/2023 23:07

gotomomo · 18/10/2023 23:05

At least I'm not the only one who tracks flights when gp is away for work (at least twice a month!)

I'm not normally this bad as he's been travelling for years. Half the time I don't remember which continent he's in as he's away so often. Just feeling a bit unsettled lately x

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LNY1986 · 18/10/2023 23:10

This is nothing to worry about, my brother is a pilot and Ukrainian airspace is currently closed, it has been for ages now and so all the flights skirt round😊

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HelloVeritas · 18/10/2023 23:11

LNY1986 · 18/10/2023 23:10

This is nothing to worry about, my brother is a pilot and Ukrainian airspace is currently closed, it has been for ages now and so all the flights skirt round😊

Thank you 🙏

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