Air Malta planes draw heart shape in the sky to celebrate Valentine’s Day

February 15, 2014 Aviation

David Cenciotti

At least two Air Malta flights flew a special flight path to celebrate Valentine’s Day.

On Feb. 14, Air Malta 14J, an Airbus 319, and Air Malta 216, an Airbus 320, drew a heart in the sky over the Mediterranean sea during a round trip charter flight from Luqa.

Their flight paths could be observed on Flightradar24.com thanks to their Mode-S transponders that broadcast their position to a Maltese receiver that made it available to everyone on the Internet.

Thanks to the ADS-B we can say that only AMC216 flew a perfect heart-shaped flight route that brought the airliner over Sicily and back, as the image in this post shows.

Image credit: screenshot from Flightradar24.com

About David Cenciotti

David Cenciotti is a journalist based in Rome, Italy. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviationist”, one of the world’s most famous and read military aviation blogs. Since 1996, he has written for major worldwide magazines, including Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, and many others, covering aviation, defense, war, industry, intelligence, crime and cyberwar. He has reported from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Syria, and flown several combat planes with different air forces. He is a former 2nd Lt. of the Italian Air Force, a private pilot and a graduate in Computer Engineering. He has written five books and contributed to many more ones.