More than 5 million people saw the last flight of Queen Elizabeth on Tuesday, when the journey brought the body of the late Monarch from Edinburgh to London to be the most traced flight in history. The Fleghradar24 flight tracking website says a total of 4.79 million people watch direct flights online, with a quarter of a million people watching on their YouTube channel.
The company said 6 million people who had never happened before trying to take flights in the first minute of the Boeing C17A Globemaster who turned on their transponder at Edinburgh Airport, affecting the stability of the platform. “Seventy years after her first flight as the queen on the last ship ‘Atalanta,’ Ratu Elizabeth II’s last flight was the most traced flight in Flightradar24 history,” Flightradar24 Communication Director24 said in an email.
Elizabeth, the longest King of England, died in Balmoral, Scotland on September 8. The funeral will take place on September 19. Flightradar24 said the flight was more than two previous records of 2.2 million – when US speaker Nancy Pelosi flew during a controversial visit to Taiwan in August.
