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The one row that is right area, wrong field

Where this came from. On the Following overview, the table that scores each claimed overlap against recovered ADS-B position data has a verdict cell reading "Right area, wrong field." That cell counts 1 row. This page is that row: OWENS-012, 14 April 2023, Wichita, Kansas.

What this slice is

A row lands here when recovered position data puts the named aircraft in the claimed metropolitan area on the claimed date, but not at the claimed airport. The threshold this register uses is a same-field test: a recovered position has to sit close enough to the named airport to be an arrival, a departure or a low pass over it. This row misses that test and clears the looser one. To reproduce it from overlaps.csv, take every row whose adsb_verified_verdict is SAME_METRO_WRONG_FIELD. Exactly one row qualifies out of the 85 in the register.

At a glance

Rows1
Distinct dates1
Date range14 April 2023 only
AircraftSU-BTT — 1
AirportsKICT (Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National) — 1
StatesKansas — 1
ADS-B verdictRight area, wrong field — 1
Audit verdictAccurate — 1
Who is claimed presentErika Kirk alone — 1
Closest recovered position27.58 km from KICT
Ground-position confirmations0
Rows on a day with a sourced Kirk or TPUSA appearance0

TABLE A — the following aircraft

RowDate claimedAirportCity / StateFollowing aircraftTypeICAO hexArrived fromDeparted toGround stay logged, arrivedDepartedDaysTransponder / ground flagADS-B verdictClosest approach
OWENS-01214 April 2023KICT
Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National
Wichita, KSSU-BTTDassault Falcon 7X0101D3Cairo via ParisWilmington 2023-04-20no logged stay covers this dateRight area, wrong field27.58 km

TABLE B — who they are claimed to have been following

RowDate claimedWho the sheet claims was presentErika location as the sheet gives itSourced Kirk / TPUSA appearance same dayVenueLocal timeNearest airport to that venueKirk-side aircraft on record
OWENS-01214 April 2023Charlie: not claimed · Erika: claimedKansasNone same-day. Register's nearest sourced appearance: TPUSA Faith Kingdom to the Capitol Topeka KS 2023-04-23 (register: 9 days away)none recorded

TABLE C — sourcing and both verdicts

RowSheet indexAudit verdict (tracking-site pass)ADS-B verdict (position data)What the position data saysSource of the claimSource postFull row page
OWENS-01212AccurateRight area, wrong fieldRIGHT AREA, WRONG FIELD. Closest recovered position is 28 km from KICT - inside the source sheet's own 50-100 mile tolerance, outside a same-airport test. Neither confirmed nor refuted.Owens sheet via Kanekoa audit (ACCURATE 4/14); Owens Ep 256 INFILTRATION (Sacramento 4/13 then Cairo-to-Kansas)postopen

What the specifics show

OWENS-012 is the only row in the register where the two verdict columns pull in different directions without contradicting each other. The tracking-site audit calls the flight Accurate: SU-BTT, an Egyptian government-registered Dassault Falcon 7X, hex 0101D3, inbound from Cairo via Paris on 14 April 2023 and outbound to Wilmington on 20 April. The recovered position data agrees the aircraft was in the Wichita area and disagrees about the field — its closest recovered position is 27.58 km from KICT. That distance sits comfortably inside the 50-to-100-mile tolerance the source sheet applies to itself, and comfortably outside a test that asks whether the aircraft actually touched the named runway. Neither confirmed nor refuted is the correct reading, and it is the only row in the register that earns it.

The Kirk side of this row is the weak side. The sheet gives Erika Kirk's location as "Kansas" — a state, not a place — and claims Charlie Kirk not at all. There is no sourced Kirk or Turning Point appearance anywhere within three days of 14 April 2023; the nearest this site can independently source is TPUSA Faith's Kingdom to the Capitol in Topeka on 23 April 2023, nine days later and roughly 135 miles from Wichita, by which time the aircraft had already left for Wilmington. The row's own recorded counterargument notes an ordinary explanation sitting directly on top of it: Yingling Aviation at KICT is an FAA Part 145 repair station servicing Dassault Falcon aircraft, and Duncan Aviation is recorded as having held the Egyptian Air Force Falcon maintenance account since 1999 — a Falcon 7X landing near Wichita is close to the least remarkable thing a Falcon 7X can do. The claim also arrives with a pairing attached: Candace Owens' Episode 256 places Charlie Kirk in Sacramento on 13 April and the aircraft coming in "Cairo to Kansas" the next day. Sacramento and Wichita are not the same overlap, and the sheet does not treat them as one.

What this list cannot tell you

  • A trace proves an aircraft was there. It never proves who was aboard. The recovered positions show a Falcon 7X near Wichita on 14 April 2023 and nothing else. They do not name a passenger, a crew, or a purpose.
  • 27.58 km is a measurement, not a verdict. It does not show the aircraft avoiding KICT, and it does not show it landing anywhere in particular. There are zero ground-position confirmations on this row, meaning the recovered trace contains no positions transmitted with the on-ground flag set — which is ordinary, because receiver coverage of a parked aircraft is thin.
  • Erika Kirk's presence is established on zero rows, here and across the whole register. Her flight logs are reported erased and no itinerary was ever published. "Kansas" in the sheet's location cell is an assertion by the compilers, not a document. Erika Kirk is a living person, not charged with anything, and named on this page only as the subject of an unverified claim.
  • An absence in an archive is not evidence of absence. Where this row's trace stops, the correct reading is that a volunteer receiver network heard nothing more — not that the aircraft did nothing more.
  • Counting note. This register holds 85 rows and the ADS-B pass scored all of them, so "1" here is one row in 85. The tracking-site audit reached fewer: it returned a substantive verdict on 73 rows, with five never published, five added to the register after the audit and never reached by it, and two outside what the flight archive can assess. Audit-verdict percentages elsewhere on the site therefore run on a smaller denominator than the ADS-B ones do, and the two should not be compared without saying which denominator each uses.

Flight-record pages for what is on this page

This investigation keeps one page per airport and one page per recorded ground contact, built directly from the recovered ADS-B traces. These are the ones this page touches.

Ground contacts near a sourced Charlie / Erika / TPUSA event:

Date (UTC)AircraftAirportCity, StateWhose eventWhen
2024-04-23SU-BTTKPVUProvo, UTCharlieSame day
2025-09-10SU-BTTKPVUProvo, UTCharlieSame day

Airports named on this page:

Aircraft named on this page:

  • SU-BTT — full recovered movement record, every airport and every leg

The two indexes: