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