Were these trips for private purposes? In that case, isn't the use of the presidential plane an abuse of power?”Ī screenshot from the video 'Tunisie : Avion présidentiel, à quoi et à qui sert-il?'by Astrubal. However, the destinations of the presidential plane include, but are not limited to, Malaga, Malta, Geneva, and Madrid (sometimes for a period that strongly resembles that of a weekend shopping trip). “Tunisians know that their president does not make many official trips. His efforts revealed that most of the presidential plane trips had been unreported. Astrubal wrote on his blog as reported on Global Voices:
Plane spotting websites were also used in 2007, when Tunisian blogger Astrubal came across several images of the Tunisian presidential plane on a planespotting website, taken between 20. Astrubal cross-referenced the planes sightings against government reports of the President's official travel. Really just there on peoples webpages, for anyone to look at.” These things which aren't traditionally the tools of investigative journalism but are now I looked at the websites of plane spotters. So I started digging into it and I looked through these flight records, which are very easily accessible on the internet. But the reports I was reading about it seemed very slim and I realised that all the tools that I use every day could tell me more about this story. It only became news because the flight was refused entry to Nigerian airspace, where it was headed and went on this kind of insane 24-hour journey around Europe. But it was someone who'd overstayed their visa and they were being deported, and in order to get them out of the country because they were proving to be a political nuisance, they were actually placed aboard a private jet, the kind of thing that usually flies celebrities and footballers around, and rushed out of the country. It turns out that the story, in fact, if you start reading stories about immigration, is not that unusual. “I was reading a report in the newspaper about a deportation, about someone in the UK who'd overstayed their visa and was deported, and there were these strange details of the story that caught my eye. Seamless Transitions used Flightradar24 to find information around the UK immigration system, as he told Exposing the Invisible earlier in the year: Watch our video with James talking about Seamless Transitions here. James Bridle for his project Seamless Transitions Last year Flightradar24 was used by the Associated Press to track the FBI's spy planes flying over the US uncovering details of their aviation programme. This, it plans to do, by placing trackers on buoys in the ocean.įlightradar24 is used by aviation enthusiasts and planespotters (search for #flightradar24 on Twitter if you want to see a glimpse into this world) but the service is also used by the activist community for a number of investigations on corruption and abuses of power. We're currently investigating a number of ways to achieve that goal." They hope to get coverage even over the worlds deepest oceans.
Exposing the Invisible emailed with the Media and Community Relations of Flightradar24 on how they hope to achieve that goal and they wrote "our goal remains global coverage. The group has installed several all over the world - in fact, in 2015 they installed the first ever receiver in Antarctica. In the coming years the website plans on getting 100% coverage of the Earth. The website started in 2006 and now has approximately 60% of the world's flights covered, and this number is growing.įlights are tracked using devices called receivers which picks up the signals of the aircraft. What is now the world's most popular and comprehensive air traffic tracking tool was once just a hobby for two aviation enthusiasts from Sweden. A tool that enables users to see real-time information aboutįlightradar24 is a flight-tracking tool that enables users to see real-time information about thousands of aircrafts around the world.
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