London, Around 6 million people watched the transport plane carrying the coffin of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II from Edinburgh, Scotland to London. This is the first time in history that a flight was watched by so many lakhs of people. People were searching and tracking about the flight. The previous record was 2.2 million people tracking the plane.
The website FlightRadar24 has given this information on Wednesday. A British Royal Air Force transport aircraft RAF Globemaster C-17 was used to transport Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin from Edinburgh to London. The Queen’s coffin was brought here from St Giles’ Church in Edinburgh on Tuesday evening.
A US military plane carrying US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan last month had 2.2 million people on FlightRadar24.
Around six million people tried to track the British military plane from Edinburgh to RAF Northolt in its first minute of flight on Tuesday, the website said. Attempts to track the plane by a large number of people simultaneously led to suppression of the site. Through this website, users can track the route of the aircraft flying in the air.
According to the report, 47.9 lakh people were visiting its website and app while 2.96 lakh were visiting the broadcast on YouTube. Udan used the callsign Kittyhawk. This is used for military flights in which the Empress is seated. FlightDar24 said it took steps to make the platform as stable as possible before the aircraft took off.
The Queen died last Thursday at the age of 96 at Balmoral Castle. He was ruling Britain for 70 years. The plane that carried the Queen’s coffin was used in humanitarian aid in the East.
Landing at the RAF’s Northholt Airport in west London, the Queen’s coffin was brought by road to Buckingham Palace in central London.SS1MS