Airlines
FlightRadar24
Flightradar24 shows live aircraft positions on an interactive global map, popular with aviation enthusiasts and frequent travelers.
What is FlightRadar24?
Flightradar24 started as a hobby project in 2006 when two Swedish aviation enthusiasts set up ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast) receivers to track aircraft over Scandinavia and put the data on a website. What began as a niche technical project became a genuinely global phenomenon: today Flightradar24 operates a network of over 30,000 ADS-B ground stations worldwide, tracks more than 200,000 flights per day, and has become the de facto public window into the global air traffic system. Its real-time flight tracking visualisation has also made it a primary news source during aviation incidents — when something unusual happens in the sky, journalists and the public go to Flightradar24.
The platform ingests data from multiple sources: ADS-B receiver feeds from its global network, MLAT (multilateration) calculations for aircraft without ADS-B transponders, FLARM data from general aviation aircraft, and radar and satellite data feeds. Processing and fusing these streams in real time, maintaining map rendering performance under massive traffic spikes, and serving mobile apps to tens of millions of users simultaneously is a significant engineering challenge. Major aviation events — emergency diversions, airspace closures, high-profile arrival and departure moments — can drive traffic to Flightradar24 that dwarfs normal usage.
When Flightradar24 is experiencing problems, the live map may stop updating, showing aircraft frozen in their last known position. Search for specific flights can return no results or fail to load flight history. The iOS and Android apps may crash on launch or fail to display the radar view. Aircraft detail pages showing route history, altitude, and speed data can return errors. During major news events when traffic is highest, the website often experiences degraded performance that manifests as slow page loads and failed map tile requests.
Outage.gg tracks Flightradar24 service status with real-time community reports. If the live map is frozen or the app is not loading, the live status page will show whether it is a platform-wide issue.
Common FlightRadar24 Problems
Issues users most frequently report when FlightRadar24 is having problems.
Service unavailability
API calls are failing, dashboards are unreachable, or the service is returning 5xx errors.
Slow performance / high latency
Response times are significantly above normal, causing timeouts and degraded user experience.
Authentication failures
API keys, OAuth tokens, or SSO logins are being rejected unexpectedly.
Data sync & storage issues
Files, databases, or synced data are not updating, missing, or inaccessible.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about FlightRadar24 outages and server status.
You can check the live FlightRadar24 server status at outage.gg/services/flightradar24. The page shows real-time community-submitted outage reports, an hourly trend chart, and the current health status.
FlightRadar24 can stop working for a number of reasons including scheduled maintenance windows, unexpected server failures, network infrastructure problems, or DDoS attacks. Check the live status page on Outage.gg for the latest community reports to see if others are experiencing the same issue.
Go to outage.gg/services/flightradar24 and click the "Report an Issue" button. Your report is counted immediately and helps confirm whether a problem is widespread. Reports from multiple users trigger a status change visible to everyone watching the page.
Click the "Notify Me" bell button on the FlightRadar24 status page at outage.gg/services/flightradar24. Create a free account and we will send you an email the moment FlightRadar24 comes back online — no app download required.
Many services maintain official status pages with planned maintenance notices. Outage.gg aggregates real-time community-reported outages which often surface faster than official channels.
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