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Pelosi's flight to Taiwan was the most tracked ever, according to Flightradar24

New York (CNN Business)US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trip to TaiwanAn island nation that pissed off China was the single most frequently tracked flight in the history of the online flight tracking site Flightradar24. The website said Wednesday that more than 708,000 people around the world were tracking the flight that landed in Taiwan's capital, Taipei. More than 2.9 million people also tracked at least part of the flight, amid uncertainty over whether Pelosi would keep her promise to visit the island nation.

A US military aircraft with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on board prepares to land at Songshan Airport in Taipei on August 2, 2022.
A US military aircraft with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on board prepares to land at Songshan Airport in Taipei on August 2, 2022.

US military plane carrying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi prepares to land at Taipei Songshan Airport August 2, 2022.

The stopover in Taiwan was not part of the official schedule for Pelosi's Asia tour, but Taiwanese and U.S. officials She confirmed to CNN that she will be stopping by. The decision comes amid warnings from Biden administration officials who have expressed concerns about how China will respond.
On her first visit to Taiwan in 25 years, Pelosi said that the trip was intended to "make it clear" that the United States would "not abandon" Taiwan. she said. A democratically governed island. She was greeted by Taiwan's president, Tsai Ing-wen, at a televised meeting. She thanked Pelosi for the visit, commended her commitment to democracy, and bestowed Taiwan's highest civilian honors. It will seriously affect the political foundation of Sino-US relations," he warned, responding with a series of military exercises that began on Tuesday.

Flight According to her tracker, Pelosi flew from Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, to Taipei aboard a Boeing C-40C jet operated by the U.S. Air Force, a military version of the Boeing 737 jetliner. Did. This flight flew with the call sign "SPAR19".

Flightradar24 started as a passion project by two aviation enthusiasts, and theblog post saw the website traffic so intense that trackers He said he was about to stop. Restrict access to your site for non-subscribers by implementing a waiting room feature.

"The unprecedented and continued interest in this particular flight has put a tremendous amount of pressure on the Flightradar24 infrastructure. Our team is working diligently to maintain service stability. Unfortunately, due to the high number of users, we had to roll out a waiting room feature to measure non-subscriber access to Flightradar24.”

Not long after Pelosi's plane landed. , the company was able to restore normal access for all users.