The plane which carried Queen ELizabeth II's coffin from Edinburgh to London was the world's most-tracked flight. Flightradar24 said six million people attempted to click on the flight on its website within a minute as the C-17 Globemaster aircraft prepared to take off yesterday (September 13).
This caused "unprecedented strain", according to the company, and caused the website to crash. Flightradar24 said it had "implemented a number of traffic calming measures" before the flight as it "expected a large influx of users", but the "immediate, massive spike was beyond what we had anticipated".
A record five million people followed the flight to RAF Northolt, north-west London, across the company's website, app and YouTube live stream. The previous record for a flight was set last month when 2.2 million people tracked a plane carrying US politician Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan.
