[Updated] Flightradar (FR24) app & website down or not working? You're not alone

New updates are being added at the bottom of this story…….

Original story (published on August 02, 2022) follows:

Flightradar is a well known air route and flight tracking platform. It allows users to know in real time the live route for thousands of flights that depart daily worldwide.

The Flightradar platform recently took on special importance for many Americans due to the current complicated situation between China and Taiwan, pending a presumed visit to the latter by the speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Thousands of Americans were following the live route of a flight taken by Nancy Pelosi. However, Flightradar (FR24) servers crashed suddenly, so both the app and the website are currently down and not working.

Social platforms like Twitter are full of reports related to the issue. Apparently, the sudden crash of Flightradar servers while tracking the Nancy Pelosi flight has many concerned.

Was keeping FlightRadar24 in the background to keep an eye on Pelosi’s plane (If it is SPAR19?). Just after it turned north towards Taiwan – FlightRadar broke down.
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Pelosi’s plane cuts off electronics, flight radar site crashes due to too many users, Taiwan govt sites go down… WWIII could happen while we are all hitting REFRESH. #StopTheWarmongers
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Here we go!!!! FR24 Down globally (Intentional)…

#SPAR19 might be heading towards Guam Base!

US Secret Tansport jet landed in landed in Taiwan few minutes ago!

Multiple unmarked Taiwan jets reached (ing) Guam Base

SPAR19 is a dud!

Watch out! For China’s Whining too
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The Flightradar website and app server crash is also reflected on server status platforms like ‘Is It Down Right Now?’. Currently, all Flightradar tracking services are unavailable for everyone.

It’s possible that the Flightradar server crash was due to the many people tracking the Pelosi flight at the same time. However, this is not confirmed as there is no official word on the issue yet.

We will update this story as events unfold.

10:49 am (IST): According to server status platform — Is it down right now — the recent outage with Flightradar has now been resolved. Also, we haven’t come across any fresh reports on Twitter.

01:12 pm (IST): Flight radar 24 is currently down or not working for a section of users (1,2,3,4).

Fortunately, support is aware and said that the issue of power supply in the Stockholm region has now been resolved. They are now working on bringing services safely back online.

The issues with the power supply in the Stockholm region have now been resolved and we are working on bringing our services safely back online.
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07:02 pm (IST): Flight radar 24 support has confirmed that all issues have been resolved:

All issues affecting Flightradar24 services have now been resolved. If you continue to experience any problems using Flightradar24, please email us at [email protected] and we will be happy to investigate further.
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Featured image: Flightradar on Twitter

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