How common is it for helicopters to fly at 41,000 feet? I see N924PH on my receiver and also on flightradar24. Also, 474 knots seems very fast for a helicopter. Is this aircraft being misidentified maybe? Peak speed on the flightradar24 path seems to be 623 knots. FR identifies it as a Sikorsky 92A, which wikipedia says has a cruising speed of 174 knots.
I just checked the json aircraft file on my receiver, and it was identified from the ICAO hex code “acce53”
I know one made it to the top of Everest, however, it is pretty rare.
I think it would need to be specially modified to fly that high.
I think over 15K is pretty rare.
I think you’re missing the point. The question was rhetorical. I think it’s pretty apparent that the aircraft in question was not a helicopter. So then the question becomes how it was identified as a helicopter. Wrong ICAO somehow keyed in to the aircraft’s computer?
It was most likely just a bad packet. We probably get them all of the time.
Many times I have seen aircraft squarking 7700 on one device and not on the others.
A bad packet or several hundred (or maybe thousands - didn’t count) bad packets? Also, note that my receiver and flightradar24 both received these bad packets.