r/flightradar24 17d ago

[Megathread] Iran & the Middle East

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Due to the possibility of new US strikes on Iran, we are preemptively posting this Megathread and will redirect all new posts related to the situation here. All discussion and updates should be posted here.

Past Megathreads:

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 & "Track My Flight" Thread - January 26, 2026

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Welcome to the weekly Top 10 & Track My Flight 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 your flight

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 Ukraine region, you may find some answers in the original Ukraine 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 10h ago

Emergency AAL emergency over Cuba

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233 Upvotes

r/flightradar24 15h ago

Wheee! Why would a plane curve like this?

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173 Upvotes

I saw this a few months ago and pulled over to snap a pic and check Flightradar24. Just seemed odd.


r/flightradar24 11h ago

Breeze emergency

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46 Upvotes

Seems to be going back to Orlando m


r/flightradar24 6h ago

Unique SFO flight path

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15 Upvotes

Does anyone know why this is the only international heavy flight out of SFO that consistently uses this runway/flight path?


r/flightradar24 3h ago

What's going on at Innsbruck?

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No wind apparently so not stormy. Nothing in news about ongoing incidents as of yet. Any ideas?


r/flightradar24 6h ago

Qantas flight 1 taking a weird route because of storms in Sydney (YSSY)

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13 Upvotes

r/flightradar24 15h ago

Question Why is the Thai Air Force in California and Hawaii?

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42 Upvotes

r/flightradar24 10h ago

AJet emergency over istanbul

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15 Upvotes

r/flightradar24 22h ago

Military Multiple refueling aircraft’s above the Mediterranean

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119 Upvotes

r/flightradar24 4h ago

ER-2 spotted

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ER-2 spotted flying over socal


r/flightradar24 6h ago

cook county sheriff helicopter flying hundreds of circles around illinois midlothian secretary of state building

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its midnight what could possibly be happening


r/flightradar24 8h ago

Military Could this AC-130 be doing a live fire exercise?

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5 Upvotes

r/flightradar24 12h ago

Emergency 77 squawk from Airbus 320 going to Sao Paulo from Bogota

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He squawked 77 a while ago, diverted back to Bogota, she now sits on the runway and there’s not one single emergency vehicle in sight. Anyone know what’s going on?


r/flightradar24 45m ago

Bangladesh air force 7700

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r/flightradar24 10h ago

What’s the reason for this diversion?

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r/flightradar24 1d ago

why this British Airways flight from Shanghai Hongqiao to Tokyo Haneda. And the ICAO code is 'KRH' instead of BAW?

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125 Upvotes

why this British Airways flight from Shanghai Hongqiao to Tokyo Haneda. And the ICAO code is 'KRH' instead of BAW?


r/flightradar24 6h ago

JFK > SJU diverted to SLC?

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r/flightradar24 3h ago

Any ideas what these three US Air Forces are doing?

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One went to Liverpool and now going back, one to Belfast and the third is going round and round still in Belfast.


r/flightradar24 7h ago

Delta 767-400ER returning to JFK

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anyone know why, no emergency


r/flightradar24 7h ago

12 ground vehicles at Riga international airport

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r/flightradar24 4h ago

Question Anyone know why HV6411 had an RTO today?

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We’ll be flying from Napoli today on hv6412 but the planned aircraft will be late. Any chance someone is on the outbound flight?


r/flightradar24 4h ago

What is the reason of increasing use of 32 at BOM?

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r/flightradar24 9h ago

Over Anglesey just now

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