Overview
- Flight‑tracking feeds show a Ravenair Piper Tomahawk spent about 20 minutes drawing the words “I’m bored” over the Wirral and Dee estuary during a roughly two‑and‑a‑half hour sortie on July 11.
- A flight‑tracker, Aaron Rheins, reconstructed the route from Flightradar24 data and posted it to TikTok where the clip quickly went viral and was shared widely on platforms such as X.
- Ravenair told the BBC and other outlets the flight was a routine test after a part replacement, the aircraft was inspected and returned safely to the hangar, and no safety issue was found.
- The company identified the pilot as a flight instructor in his twenties and said he will not be disciplined and had the day after the test flight off.
- The incident underscores that publicly broadcast ADS‑B positional data allow third parties to map small‑plane routes in detail and that social media can rapidly amplify unusual but non‑dangerous operational behavior.