In 2014 it was used by multiple major news outlets following several high-profile crashes . The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 , and in July 2014 after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over Ukraine , and in December when Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 went missing . Flightradar24 reported that its web traffic increased to around 50 times normal and caused some access congestion to users
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
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