SAR helicopter incorrect country flag?
g7ruh opened this issue · comments
Jasper
Just noticed this:
which shows the wrong flag on the pop up panel and on the hover over the "vessel".
This from TAR1090, squawk 7000 as it was training not on a SAR mission:
Roger
hi Roger
FYI
using one website or another this is uk costguard or bristow (https://www.bristowgroup.com/locations) ?
strange
Kind regards
Philippe
The MMSI is from a portugese cargo vessel....
https://aiscatcher.org/ship/details/255805626
It seems to have now landed..... Really odd
Hi All, this has been showing like this for about a week, I think it may have had a new AIS box which is somehow coded wrong.
I can confirm it is a real helicopter, as it flies over my house, certainly not a flying ship!!: too small for that :) It looks like the pictures above, rotor blades and red and white body. Callsign for marine frequencies CG175.
thanks @Jonboy1081 for your reply.
Roger
Jasper,
It was just working with squawk 0023 as rescue175. Thanks for the reason why (and to @Jonboy1081 too).
I just saw it and wondered if it was a bug or human error, seems like the latter. Sorry for the "herring rouge"** as we say in England.
I will see if I can contact HM Coastguard to inform them of the data issue.
Roger
** I will explain further if anyone is curious.
Thanks for flagging, it is an interesting case and something to think about how we can avoid this corrupting a database
suggestion: double check with MMSI and others sites to test coherency
It is OK now on MT
and this
I suspect that the SAR helicopter has set the MMSI incorrectly. I have informed HM Coastguard by email.
Update 19th May 2024
Independent Primero came to Southampton and left Friday.
AIS-catcher chart swapping between vessel location and SAR helicopter location based on last received message. I guess somebody noticed it and got the MMSI fixed. I never heard back from HM Coastguard. All is well now.
Roger