Claimed flights we could NOT retrieve a primary ADS-B trace for
Generated 2026-08-24T16:03:53.115Z by
site/docs/Planes/following/apis/public_open_source/code/pull_all.js.
Source tried: adsb.lol globe history —
https://adsb.lol/globe_history/YYYY/MM/DD/traces/<hh>/trace_full_<hex>.json
This is the only free, no-account source of historical ADS-B tracks we have found. It serves only what its volunteer feeder network actually received.
WHAT AN EMPTY RESULT DOES AND DOES NOT MEAN. A 404 here means adsb.lol holds no
trace for that airframe on that UTC day. It does not establish that the aircraft
did not fly, and it does not establish that a transponder was switched off. The
ordinary explanations come first: the aircraft was parked and silent, it flew outside
volunteer receiver coverage (most of the Atlantic, most of North Africa, much of the
rural US at low altitude), or the claimed date is simply wrong. Several of the rows
below are already recorded in overlaps.csv as audited inaccurate.
The claim is what is listed. The absence is what we found. Neither is proof.
| Tail | UTC date | HTTP | Why we looked |
|---|---|---|---|
| SU-BTT | 2022-10-31 | 404 | overlap OWENS-003 - Boston MA (audited_inaccurate, audit: inaccurate) |
| SU-BTT | 2022-11-01 | 404 | overlap OWENS-003 - Boston MA (audited_inaccurate, audit: inaccurate) |
| SU-BTT | 2022-11-02 | 404 | overlap OWENS-003 - Boston MA (audited_inaccurate, audit: inaccurate) |
Where this page fits
The three rows above close out the earliest cluster of the sheet — row OWENS-003, Boston, SU-BTT looked for and not found because no free archive reaches November 2022, not because a transponder went quiet, and the overlap index says so on its face. Getting that distinction right in public is the one thing this investigation cannot afford to fumble, which is why what a 403 actually means exists at all, and why claims about vanishing evidence elsewhere in the case — the 10 inches of dirt removed before the pavers, the crime-scene handling timeline, the wider cover-up hub — count for more once the mundane explanation has been ruled out first. From here, flight data recovery shows the method paying off: four free routes, a control test, one page on this site retracted because the control failed the same way the target did, and the per-row results collected on overlap recovery.