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Pope Francis departing ADW for JFK
Track on flightaware - Popes flight to JFK American AA9420 (flightaware.com) 更多...
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I think the AA flight was the press plane, The Pope is on an Alitalia A330
Within the U.S., he has always traveled on a U.S carrier. It was always TWA until its acquisition by AA and now AA has taken on that role. In the past Alitalia would bring the Pope to the U.S. and TWA would fly him home. We'll see how it unfolds this evening.
On the Pope's flight from KJFK to KPHL the average fare was $186: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAL9420/history/20150926/1240Z/KJFK/KPHL. I wonder if that includes holy water.
Good job to my fellow AA crew taking care of the Pope
If Flightaware or ATC flight data misses a position report, the software "assumes" that the aircraft is continuing on the same heading / speed of last report. When subsequent report(s) are rpocessed, the tracking line logic corrects to show the most likely (and usually accurate)track. Security, in this case, is not a factor.
I tracked that flight live and it was quite unusual. First, the tracking did not begin until more than 10 minutes after the plane had left Joint Base Andrews. Then the total flight time showed up as seven minutes -- which promptly was used up, and we went into overtime. Then the flight path showed an acute angle turn back toward Washington that continued for quite a while. Finally, things settled down, the angled regression disappeared, and the track showed up as it does now.
