8000AC

[terrytoo]

Morning,
Especially for FL240 ,  8000AC .  My location............. Lat 15.518, Long  73.769 .   AD Lite was not running.    I did NOT see it.

On 11th December 8000AC appeared on my SBS start time 09.47 end time 09.59 local, 5.5 Hours ahead of U.T.C. (side table & reporter only)
On 12th December 8000AC appeared on my SBS start time 13.00 end time 13.09 local.
On 13th December 8000AC appeared on my SBS start time 17.41 end time 17.41 local, up for 30 seconds

My GUESS is it just grazed the corner of my range (probably NE corner as I have the Arabian Sea to west). Range is roughly 100 miles N, 120 miles S,
25 miles ish(low) E, (Western Ghats, mountains), no idea high level , no idea out over the sea. The route down from BOM to BLR  is a bit north of that 'corner'.

In 2007 Jet A/W disposed of 8000AC it was VT JAM Boeing 737 48E , 25773,  to TC SGD , which it stayed , despite changing hands until
2010 when it became N773SJ for a year and then became VQ BII with hex code 4249BF which is extant. (courtesy of Airframes)
GAS hex decode just gives me VT JAM nothing more.
Indian DGAC appears to have an internal server error (whatever one of those is), doesn't usually show hex codes (occasionally as binary & incomplete)
& is hopelessly out of date, when it is available.

The question is what was it ? and why was it T-Xing  an out of date code
Thanks and have fun
Terry

[FL240]

Now you are just showing off sitting in the sun ;-)

Its a known unknown code (if you see what I mean!) any callsign or ALT to give us further clues?

[terrytoo]

Hi FL, sorry no callsign and first & last altitude 14,900ft on the 11th a 2 minute appearance.
Still nowt from Indian DGCA
As it happens I am not sitting in the sun. I WAS a 'ginger' & consequently burn very easily, the wife is the sun lover.
Just for amusement the people on the complex call me a vampire , because I only go out when it's dark :-)
Thanx & have fun
Terry

[Deleted]

I assumed you looked at the playback from FR24 for that period and time for any clues, said Sherlock Holmes? Sadly the data is no longer available to review.

Glad to help - even you!

[terrytoo]

Morning Buster
"I assumed you looked at the playback from FR24 for that period"
1, Being a technophobe I didn't think of that.
2, Being a technophobe I wouldn't know how to.

Thanks for thinking of it, and looking, but what would you expect to see.
If FR24 is fed by SBS units, would there be anything different to what mine logged ?

Indian DGCA site still returns "internal sever error" for VT JAM, but normal response for other registrations ??

Thanx & have fun
Terry

[Deleted]

You could trace from where it departed and it's destination so as to give clues assuming it 'showed'. You could compare with Plane Finder as sometimes flights show on one and not the other. If it pops up again on your SBS, make a note of the time and we can play detectives 'Buster & Cones'!

Failing that, a business class return fare from London to Goa and I'll show you how!

[terrytoo]

Morning Mr Bear
Sorry to dissapoint re the business class ticket. Alas it only came up on the side table & reporter, so unlikely to be able to trace it's origin. TC JAM repeadedly comes up internal server error on the Indian DGCA site so I guess it's something the Indians don't want to make public. (I'm the local Planefinder feed).
Have fun
Terry