That was enough to break the record for the most tracked flight ever, far surpassing the 2.9 million people who wanted to make sure U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived safely in Taiwan earlier this summer. According to Flightradar24, 4.79 million people used its website or mobile app to follow the queen’s journey. Another 296,000 monitored the flight on YouTube.
How many people tracked the queen’s coffin’s flight to London?
Answer: 5 million.
Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin was flown from Edinburgh to London on Tuesday, Sept. 13, and people really wanted to make sure it didn’t get lost along the way. A reported 5 million people tuned in to track the flight online.
That was enough to break the record for the most tracked flight ever, far surpassing the 2.9 million people who wanted to make sure U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived safely in Taiwan earlier this summer. According to Flightradar24, 4.79 million people used its website or mobile app to follow the queen’s journey. Another 296,000 monitored the flight on YouTube.
The flight was not a long one, taking just one hour and 12 minutes. From there, the queen’s coffin was taken to Buckingham Palace. The next day it was moved in a procession to Westminster Hall, where she will lie in state until the funeral on Sept. 19 in Westminster Abbey.
That was enough to break the record for the most tracked flight ever, far surpassing the 2.9 million people who wanted to make sure U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived safely in Taiwan earlier this summer. According to Flightradar24, 4.79 million people used its website or mobile app to follow the queen’s journey. Another 296,000 monitored the flight on YouTube.
