Can anyone tell me if it is possible to have flightaware show that estimated times for a flight and then very close actual times listed about 5 minutes later can be hours wrong. In this situation, the flightaware data says that the wheels up time is, let’s say 3:46 actual, and wheels down is 5:48PM actual.
But pilot insists that they landed at 11:17PM as a tenant at the local hangar where the attendant closes up at 10PM and says anyone had to be there before 10. Can this much of an error be possible? This was over 10 hours ago and the flightaware tracker still reads the same.
Have now confirmed that the flightaware data, pulled from FAA radar data and ATC to ATC, is actual. It may have only a sliver of a chance of being wrong, but most likely not, as research into this case has proven.
This pilot was simply lying about it to cover something, God knows what, but we won’t be trusting him henceforth, his lack of integrity can and does endanger people, and now we know that’s several.
Yes, it’s possible that the data on FlightAware is incorrect. On occasion we’ll get spurious message from the FAA; the most common message sent in error is an early arrival or cancellation.
A few quick and easy checks for data reasonableness include the altitude and position at the arrival time (both available in the tracklog) as well as the performance of the aircraft; there’s a huge difference between a 2 hour flight and a 7.5 hour flight.
