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Claimed flights we could NOT retrieve a primary ADS-B trace for

Generated 2026-08-24T16:03:53.111Z 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.

TailUTC dateHTTPWhy we looked
SU-BND2023-06-11404overlap OWENS-016 - Provo UT (audited_inaccurate, audit: inaccurate)
SU-BND2023-06-12404overlap OWENS-016 - Provo UT (audited_inaccurate, audit: inaccurate)
SU-BND2023-06-13404overlap OWENS-016 - Provo UT (audited_inaccurate, audit: inaccurate)

Where this page fits

The 404s here are the reason OWENS-016 had to be decided on the adjacent day: neither archive reaches 12 June 2023, but the backup volunteer network holds SU-BND at Inshas Air Base in Egypt the day before, roughly 11,000 km from Provo, as the overlap index records. Provo is where this thread meets the rest of the investigation — the field where Egyptian jets sat for days, where the ramp and passport claims originate, and where the foreign-intelligence theories about September 10 begin. The page to open next is flight data recovery: four free routes were found in a single afternoon, and one of them is the only reason four rows in this entire run could be checked at all.