Ian Petchenik

[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to episode 388 of AvTalk.

I am Ian Petchenik, here as always with

Jason Rabinowitz.

Hello, Ian, and welcome to the A380-800 episode.

Check that out, and we'll put a link to that and a whole bunch of other stuff in the show notes so that you can, you can take a look at that.

This has been episode 388 of AvTalk.

I am Ian Petchenik, here as always with ...

Jason Rabinowitz.

[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to episode 387 of AvTalk.

I am Ian Petchenik, here as always with

Jason Rabinowitz.

Ian, how's it going all the way over there in Chicago?

So thank you all so very much for listening.

We so much appreciate it.

I am Ian Petchenik, here as always with

Jason Rabinowitz.

Ratcliffe's excursion was spotted, as the CIA surely knew it would be, by online flight tracker nerds.

Let's hear first from Ian Petchenik, Director of Communications at Flightradar24, on the rise of flight tracker journalism.

[pensive music] The brilliance of flight tracking data is that it's real time.

So if media is the first draft of history, you're getting the pre-write, and you can find things that are happening in the world as they are happening.

So you're getting history as it happens.

Our users are extremely good at flagging things that are unusual or interesting, and a US Air Force C-17 flying into Russian airspace at this point in time is certainly one of those things.

That was Ian Petchenik at Flightradar24.

Um, H-Hannah, I am reminded somewhat of the attempted coup in Turkey in two thousand and sixteen when it was possible to watch in real time, uh, President Ty- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's plane flying round and round in circles as he presumably frantically made phone calls trying to figure out whether he still had a job.