This is very odd. Late night/early morning on Sep.29th I heard a prop plane go over my house so I went to Flightradar24 to see what was up. It’s not normal to hear this at night. Nothing showed up so I started clicking on planes and came across the following.
As you can see in the photos It’s a Learjet 60. No registration or flight info appeared other than what you see here. Curiosity got the best of me and I continued to follow this.
After Flying around Los Angeles for a good while it climbed to 30k feet and headed north. It ended up flying up to Sacramento Intl. but tracking went off during its descent. I started listening to the ATC streams for LAX but heard nothing that could be attributed to this LJ60. As you can see it made several approaches to LAX down to around 200 feet but never landed. You can also see many of it’s flight tracks follow the landing approach pattern for LAX.
Additionally, it’s average flight altitude was between 1500 and 2000 feet. Why would a plane like this be flying that low and slow in such a strange pattern for such a long time over a big city?
And here is another bizarre thing, searching through my browser history this flight does not appear. Every other flight I have tracked will appear but not this one. Incidentally, I watched this flight throughout the night on three different browsers (Chrome, Safari and Firefox) and it does not appear in any history. Weird.
Does anyone have any insight as to what was happening here?
Curiosity is killing me.
Screen caps. taken at 1:43, 2:11 and 2:51 AM
LJ60_0143.jpgLJ60_0211.jpgLJ60_0251.jpg
As you can see in the photos It’s a Learjet 60. No registration or flight info appeared other than what you see here. Curiosity got the best of me and I continued to follow this.
After Flying around Los Angeles for a good while it climbed to 30k feet and headed north. It ended up flying up to Sacramento Intl. but tracking went off during its descent. I started listening to the ATC streams for LAX but heard nothing that could be attributed to this LJ60. As you can see it made several approaches to LAX down to around 200 feet but never landed. You can also see many of it’s flight tracks follow the landing approach pattern for LAX.
Additionally, it’s average flight altitude was between 1500 and 2000 feet. Why would a plane like this be flying that low and slow in such a strange pattern for such a long time over a big city?
And here is another bizarre thing, searching through my browser history this flight does not appear. Every other flight I have tracked will appear but not this one. Incidentally, I watched this flight throughout the night on three different browsers (Chrome, Safari and Firefox) and it does not appear in any history. Weird.
Does anyone have any insight as to what was happening here?
Curiosity is killing me.
Screen caps. taken at 1:43, 2:11 and 2:51 AM
LJ60_0143.jpgLJ60_0211.jpgLJ60_0251.jpg
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