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The machine with Nancy Pelosi on board on approach to Taipei
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US top politician Nancy Pelosi's controversial flight to Taiwan has brought record demand to a flight radar website.
At the moment of landing on Tuesday, more than 708,000 people followed the course of the flight live on the Internet, the Flightradar24 website said.
»That makes it the most tracked flight in the history of Flightradar24.«
There had been a lot of speculation beforehand about Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, but until the very end it was not clear whether the Chair of the US House of Representatives would actually fly to Taipei.
When she took off from Kuala Lumpur on her Asia tour on Tuesday, more than 200,000 people were already there live on Flightradar24 who wanted to know where flight SPAR19 was going.
The number of hits then increased more and more and skyrocketed when the US military machine really moved towards Taiwan, the company said.
The “unprecedented interest” in the flight brought Flightradar24 to the edge of its capacity.
Access time has therefore been limited for non-subscribers.
Pelosi landed in Taipei on Tuesday evening.
This has sparked fierce protests and threats from China, which sees Taiwan as a breakaway province.
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