Flightradar stopped working due to increased interest in Pelosi’s board

The Flightradar website, which has almost 300,000 people watching the flight of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, allegedly bound for Taiwan, is unavailable due to problems with the service. should from Downdetector data.

An error message appears on the main page of the site. “Something went wrong on our end, please try again,” it says.

RIA Novosti with reference to Flightradar reportedthat the site was forced to limit the number of available transactions per minute.

Formerly TASS informed, that about 289,000 people were watching the movement of the board, on which Pelosi is allegedly located, at 12:50 Moscow time. The Boeing C-40C took off from Kuala Lumpur, its final destination is unknown.

At the end of July, a number of American and Chinese media published publications that Pelosi might visit Taiwan, which caused a sharply negative reaction from China. The Chinese Ministry of Defense officially demanded that the US cancel the visit. The Chinese authorities believe that such a move violates the “one China” principle.

Pelosi herself did not comment on a possible visit to Taiwan. On July 31, it became known that Pelosi would visit Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan as part of a trip to Asia, Taiwan was not mentioned in the message. On August 1, the Global Times wrote that the politician’s plane could land at the Taiwan airport under the pretext of an emergency. Later, the information portal EToday reported that Pelosi intends to arrive on the island on August 2.

The day before, Nikkei Asia reported that the US sent its aircraft carriers closer to Taiwan to create a “buffer zone” if the politician still decides to fly to Taiwan. The China Times learned today that both the Chinese aircraft carriers Liaoning and Shandong have left the ports of Qingdao and Sanya and put to sea.

China considers Taiwan its province and therefore opposes any contacts between the administration of the island and countries with which Beijing has diplomatic relations.