Good question. He has been back and forth to Aberdeen setting up some gaudy trump branded golf resort. A couple of days after I took the screenshot he appeared before the Scottish parliament in Edinburgh. This is how I concluded he was in the plane, though I admit there is a minor chance that I am mistaken!
The site itself is fantastic though, I could spend ages just finding out what planes are going where and thinking about where I might visit next. Plus the coloured trails to indicate the altitude are a lovely touch.
Apparently he's already on a plane to Miami, but who knows if that's true with how often he says things like "sorry guys, had to lie to you to protect myself".
Disgusting. But may I dare to suggest that in his case it was extremely naïve, if not outright deliberate, to choose an airport in the UK to change planes?
Nobody is posting his whereabouts; someone wrote a bot which grabs public API data which was pulled from ADS-B (which you can receive with a 20 EUR DVB-T receiver) which includes his private jet. His private jet may or may not contain him, and his whereabouts after he left his plane are not included. F.e. if he used a public transport, nobody would post his whereabouts automatically on Twitter.
> The BBC reported that before departing, he told a friend on Snapchat: "On my way to blow up the plane (I'm a member of the Taliban)."
> Security services saw the message and flagged it to Spanish authorities, who sent two F-18 jets to follow the airliner until it landed, per the BBC.
> He faces a public-disorder charge, which could result in him being ordered to pay over $120,000 if he's found guilty.
> About $103,000 of that is from the Spanish Defense Ministry for the cost of scrambling the fighter jets.
Definitely alarming than encrypted Snapchats are clearly not private, but the response as a whole still seems fairly reasonable, no? He did kinda threaten to blow up a commercial airliner.
I think the BBC article about his acquittal has a lot more points relevant to the discussion about privacy:
That could be a pretty smart play. Spread rumors that he's on a plane to see what the reaction would be. If he wasn't on the plane, he now knows that whatever plane he does get on, he can't fly over France.
Everyone seems to be going very public with his travel information. Either it's a way of making it harder for something "unfortunate" to happen to his (ie, for his safety) or this could be misinformation.
What a brilliant and inventive way to bring attention to his issue. Looks like Twitter is up in arms about it too, which is only going to help his case. I wish him all the best with his luggage!
I suspect he's been boiling over and rage messaging staff to banhammer the world.
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