N888KG Transponder Gap After the Shooting
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A vertical screenshot of an X thread. The opening post is from an account shown as Stellar Man, handle @stellarman22, timestamped 5:47 PM, Sep 10, 2025, with 974.9K views. Two replies follow.
The post reads: "A private jet under the tail number N888KG left Provo airport an hour after the shooting. Suspiciously 30 mins into the flight it drops off of ADS-B Illegally and reappears headed back to Provo approx. an hour later. Why did this plane turn off its radar? Where is the shooter?" A reply from an account shown as I Aver reads: "Flight path leads past Page, AZ to super-remote 'Tuba City Airport'. Perfect for your quick landing and hit team transfer needs." A second reply pushes back: "It is apparently somewhat common for ADS-B transponders to loose reception in that area due to terrain, per @Grok. And the public records on the plane don't seem to turn up anything relevant."
The thread is valuable because it contains its own rebuttal. N888KG is one of the aircraft this archive tracks, and terrain-induced ADS-B gaps are a real and common phenomenon in that region, which is exactly the kind of ordinary explanation any flight-gap claim has to clear first. See Planes and the Aircraft photo cluster.
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