air2air (495 pts)

This video was taken on 11 March 2025 (in local time). Answer the callsign and registration number of the aircraft seen in the distance. (Not the aircraft the person who shot the video is on board)

Flag Format: Diver25{CALLSIGN_Registration} Example: Diver25{ANA0183_JA381A}

Hint:

• No need to use paid information.

First of all, recognize the wing to be from Starlux Airlines.

Notice the seat to be 40A, target airplane on the left side, 1 hr 3 min left to Taipei going from Japan direction. The sky shows daylight so it would probably land around daytime in Taipei.

Starlux only have 3 kinds of aircraft model on their fleets, and only A350-900 has row 40 (refer to their official website). Starlux have 10 aircrafts of this model (as per FlightRadar24's data).

Now the logic goes like this: from these 10 aircrafts mentioned on FlightRadar24's webpage, find the flight routes that make the most sense (Going from Japan, passes near the Okinawa Islands, lands around daytime). Finally, we can narrow down the possible flights.

Flight number    | Origin city   | landing time in taipei  | rough time of encounter in the air (roughly near okinawa)
JX823            | osaka         | (16:55)                 | (15:45)
JX821            | osaka         | (15:10)                 | (13:50)
JX801            | tokyo         | (16:40)                 | (15:30)
JX803            | tokyo         | (18:40)                 | (17:30)

Now, we can check each of these flights at each predicted time on 11 March 2025 using ADS-B Exchange. Some of these flights look like they also encounter another plane mid-air, but the correct one is JX803 , with the encounter at 17:17 local time. The flight it encounters is SKY8026 .

Flag: Diver25{SKY8026_JA73NY}