OSINT Case Study to find the flight details by free tools
Welcome back to my new publication. The search started by simply searching the keyword by taking words from the Assignment statement and opening the sites one by one to verify the content, If that’s really about the case from the assignment statement.
After opening 1st link we have verification that we are on the right track and we also have some info like which airline it was and when poi boarded for deport.
After visiting the 2nd link we have the airport of Germany where POI has been deported and also where he landed in Gambia.
We have a lot of information from these 2 sites. We have Airline, deporting airport, destination airport, date and time.
There are tools that can help us and those are also publicly available but those are mostly paid.
Even after spending 3 to 4 hours, I have found that the Turkish airline doesn’t fly directly from Stuttgart to Banjul. It has some stay at Istanbul airport and then Istanbul to Banjul.
I have checked by searching the tickets from Stuttgart to Banjul on different dates and In all dates the stay at Istanbul airport was present.
So I have checked different websites and tools which can help but there wasn’t any free resources in first attempt.
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I google “Past Flight History” and found reddit post “how to get historical arrival and departure”
After digging a bit, I found a post by someone who was referring to an app which can help.(Link to the post). He has guided someone how to find correct app and how to search on that app from A to Z.
With the help of a guideline from a post, I downloaded the app on mobile and by seeing the post by that person’s guidelines, I searched by putting details we have gotten from the previous research. Poi was deported into the country on 13 mar morning which means he might have departed the country on the 12 march evening and there was only a flight which departed from stuttgart to istanbul in the evening. And only a flight which landed in Banjul from Istanbul. The app didn’t ask about the airlines or airplane info but the info about the plane retrieved was showing the plane was from Turkish Airline.
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