Just over 5 million people followed the last flight of Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday (13), the day that the journey that took the monarch’s body from Edinburgh to London resulted in the most tracked flight in history.
Flight tracking website Flightradar24 said a total of 4.79 million people watched the flight live online, with a further quarter of a million people watching via its YouTube channel.
The company said an unprecedented 6 million people tried to track the flight from the first minute the Boeing C17A Globemaster turned on its transponder at Edinburgh airport, which affected the stability of the platform.
“Seventy years after her first flight as Queen aboard the BOAC Argonaut ‘Atalanta’, Queen Elizabeth II’s final flight is the most tracked flight in Flightradar24 history,” Flightradar24’s director of communications said in an email.
Elizabeth, the longest-reigning monarch in UK history, died in Balmoral, Scotland, on 8 September. Her funeral will take place on September 19.
Flightradar24 said the flight’s viewership was more than double the previous record of 2.2 million – when US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi traveled for a controversial visit to Taiwan in August.
Source: CNN Brasil
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