Yesterday night I was watching Flight Radar and I saw A US Atlas Cargo plane took off from Bagram AF base at around 3AM and crossed into pak airspace near Peshawar . It Then took a long turn and moved ahead is some zigzag manner and after reaching near Gilgit and Skardu airbase, it turned off its transponder and vanished.
Is it normal for a cargo plane to move haphazardly and then turn off its transponder midway in the flight?. I also noticed that there were one another passenger plane in vicinity and both lost its connection to the flight radar (?) . So most probably it was not the plane but the ATC tower that lost the connection (dotted line instead of the solid)and it seems intentionally.
The registration was N406kz
Is it normal for a cargo plane to move haphazardly and then turn off its transponder midway in the flight?. I also noticed that there were one another passenger plane in vicinity and both lost its connection to the flight radar (?) . So most probably it was not the plane but the ATC tower that lost the connection (dotted line instead of the solid)and it seems intentionally.
The registration was N406kz