Ukraine Conflict Pushes Services to the Limit As Onlookers Monitor Flights in Region
Amid the interesting goings-on in Ukraine, aviation nerds have pummeled the service of flight tracking website Flightradar24. After continuously monitoring every last scrap of minutiae over Ukrainian airspace, generating almost 20 times the level of average daily traffic, the site's service gave out. In another vignette of war in the modern world, a series of surveillance systems and traffic control gave onlookers a highly granular, surprisingly accurate view of the hostilities from moment to moment.