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Contact

VIR450

G-VFANB789Virgin Atlantic AirwaysConfirmed contact

Date
23 Aug 2026
Entry
05:58:14
Exit
06:23:34
Duration
25 min 20 s
Received positions
2,048
Route resolution
From the callsign, confidence 60/100Per the routes referential of 21 Jul 2026.

Contact map

05:58 · 38,000 ft · 488 kt
  • Route resolved from the callsign: O.R. Tambo International Airport (FAOR) to London Heathrow Airport (EGLL), confidence 60/100. A deduction from the reference data, never a measured path.
  • Measured track: 161 received points, joined in time order. The real captured path, never fabricated.0 ft35,000 ft

'Entry' and 'exit' mark where the station began and stopped receiving the aircraft, at the edges of the antenna's range: not where the aircraft appeared or vanished.

Flight profile

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Start and end of contact

Start
23 Aug 2026, 05:58
Altitude
37,975 ft
Ground speed
not transmitted
Vertical rate
32 ft/min
Track
Squawk
4053
End
23 Aug 2026, 06:23
Altitude
38,000 ft
Ground speed
461 kt
Vertical rate
-32 ft/min
Track
340.9°
Squawk
4053