Mesmerising footage how shows more than 200,000 flights took off and landed on one of aviation's busiest days in history 
Flight monitoring service FlightRadar24 released the animated map showing aircraft filling the skies around the globe on Friday.
And it announced that it was one of the busiest days it had ever recorded since being founded in 2006, after it tracked a massive 202,157 planes.
The Swedish-based website added that it was the first time it had ever tracked more than 200,000 flights in a day and that at the peak time, over 19,000 flights were in the air at the same time.
Writing on Twitter on Saturday, FlightRadar24 said: 'Yesterday was the busiest day of the year in the skies so far and our busiest day ever. 202,157 flights tracked! The first time we've tracked more than 200,000 flights in a single day.'
Flight monitoring service FlightRadar24 released the animated map showing aircraft filling the skies around the globe on Friday.
And it announced that it was one of the busiest days it had ever recorded since being founded in 2006, after it tracked a massive 202,157 planes.
The Swedish-based website added that it was the first time it had ever tracked more than 200,000 flights in a day and that at the peak time, over 19,000 flights were in the air at the same time.
Writing on Twitter on Saturday, FlightRadar24 said: 'Yesterday was the busiest day of the year in the skies so far and our busiest day ever. 202,157 flights tracked! The first time we've tracked more than 200,000 flights in a single day.'
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