More than five million people watched the last flight of Queen Elizabeth II, whose remains were flown from Edinburgh to London on Tuesday evening. transmissions H1.
It is the most watched flight in history, it was announced.
Flight tracking website Flytradar24 reported that 4,79 million people had taken the flight, with another quarter of a million people watching the flight on YouTube.
The company said six million people tried to follow the flight in the first minute of the Boeing C17A Globemaster taking off from Edinburgh Airport, threatening the stability of the platform.
"Seventy years since the Queen's first flight on the BOAC Argonaut 'Atalanta' plane, the last flight of Queen Elizabeth II is the most followed flight in the history of Flytradar24," announced the company's communications director.
Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-serving monarch, died on September 8 at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. She will be buried on September 19 in London.
Flighttradar24 announced that twice as many people followed that flight as the one that held the previous record. Previously, 2,2 million people followed the flight of the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, when she traveled to visit Taiwan in August.
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