Ian Kluft ✅✈️🎈🌋1d ago

While I was getting ready for pictures of unpainted MAX9 arrival at PDX, this 737 MAX9 got my attention. On ADS-B it showed reg PR-VBY and type 737-700. An Alaska Airlines 737 should not transmit a Brazilian registration! 🤔

I took a picture for the tail number on it: N738AL. I'll try to contact Alaska Airlines maintenance [ed: nope, not them]. Apparently an odd computer goof: PR-VBY of Varig & GOL was scrapped in 2021, previously N738AL at Aloha. 🤦😲 #aviation #avgeek [ed: false alarm]

Show threadIan Kluft ✅✈️🎈🌋
False alarm: that was a software bug, but not attributed to Boeing or Alaska Airlines. I had switched my planespotting wall monitor from adsb[.]lol to globe[.]airplanes[.]live and it was their bug. They apparently did a database lookup finding the previous user of the tail number N738AL and inserting all its data. Aloha Airlines N738AL 737-700 was sold to Varig and re-reg PR-VBY. That plane was scrapped in 2021 and its data should not be used. #aviation #travel #avgeek #tech #oops
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Show threadIan Kluft ✅✈️🎈🌋1d ago
I submitted a bug report to globe[.]airplanes[.]live for their really weird bug that brings back data from dead/scrapped airplanes and displays it for new ones with the same tail number. https://github.com/airplanes-live/community/issues/6 #aviation #avgeek #tech #oops #facepalm #WTF
data from decommissioned aircraft erroneously displays on new planes of same tail number · Issue #6 · airplanes-live/community

A database lookup at airplanes.live is erroneously filling in data on new aircraft from older planes which previously held the same tail number: wrong aircraft type, even a change of registration f...

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