It isn'talways theweather.
Enter your flight number, date, or paste an airline delay message directly on this site. AIRTRUTH checks live airport weather, whether other planes took off cleanly, and pilot duty limits—then writes your compensation claim letter for free.
"Why was our flight delayed? IndiGo texted it’s bad weather in Delhi."
Not weather. This plane had a crew duty timeout in Mumbai 6 hours earlier. Its earlier Pune→Mumbai flight hit the 12-hour pilot limit with no standby crew—long before any weather.
Built for EU Regulation 261/2004 (€600), UK261 Passenger Charter, US DOT 14 CFR Part 260 ($650), India DGCA CAR Section 3 (₹10,000), IndiGo A320neo Domestic, Delta Transcontinental Hub, British Airways Long-Haul, Flight Rights Claims Platforms, Corporate Travel TMC Portals. Fuses ADS-B Mode-S 1090ES, METAR / TAF Airport Weather, FAA NAS Ground Delay Programs, DGCA / AAI Slot Movement Logs, Parallel Runway Departures, Tail-Number 4-Leg Chaining, Crew FDTL / FAR 117 Duty Caps, SHA-256 Coordinate Sealing.
Check why your flight was delayed — and what you are owed.
Enter your flight number, date, and how late it arrived—or paste the delay message from your airline. If you aren't sure yet, keep How Late on Not sure to inspect live airport weather first.
Type your flight number above and click Check My Flight — or click any example above to see a full delayed-flight report.
Airlines call almost every delay “Weather”. Radar shows the receipt.
1,250 multi-hour disrupted flights across IndiGo, Delta, and British Airways, audited leg by leg against public ADS-B and runway logs.
“Weather” excuses rebutted
Share of exempted claims refuted by radar & tail logs
38.4% of rebutted airline weather claims trace back to a 4-leg inbound tail-number chain delay starting hours earlier.
Detector yield breakdown
Which contradiction exposes the excuse first
How the excuse breaks down
Audit share by carrier across three compensation regimes
Derived from deterministic replay across DGCA CAR §3, US DOT 14 CFR §260, and EU261 scenarios. Audit method
Your delay began four airports away.
On the departure board it reads Bad Weather. On tail-number telemetry, aircraft VT-IFU was already 160 minutes behind after a crew FDTL timeout in Mumbai.
Six detectors built for every airline exemption excuse.
When a carrier invokes extraordinary circumstances, AirTruth audits tail history, adjacent runways, METARs, and crew hours to surface legal proof.
4-leg rotation slip
Traces the exact airframe tail (e.g. VT-IFU or N842DN) across its prior 4 flights before your gate opened.
AIRTRUTH PROVESVT-IFU slipped +145m in Mumbai 6h earlier. The aircraft was late long before Delhi cloud cover existed.
8 peer runway takeoffs
Proves adjacent jets departed the identical runway during the airline’s alleged “unflyable weather” window.
AIRTRUTH PROVESVIDP RWY 28 logged 8 clean departures under 6,000m VMC METAR while 6E-214 blamed storms.
FDTL / FAR 117 timeout
Flags cockpit & cabin crew exceeding statutory duty ceilings with zero standby reserve crew scheduled at base.
AIRTRUTH PROVESFlight deck hit 12.2h / 12.0h DGCA FDTL ceiling in Mumbai. Crew shortage is never extraordinary weather.
Zero ATC Ground Delay
Cross-checks FAA NAS Advisories and Eurocontrol ATFM bulletins whenever an airline blames air-traffic flow control.
AIRTRUTH PROVESNo FAA Ground Delay Program or airspace closure existed at KJFK between 10:00 and 15:00 UTC.
Pushback to wheels-up
Measures door-close to takeoff duration on ADS-B ground squawk logs against US DOT 3-hour & UK261 rules.
AIRTRUTH PROVESG-EUUR held on Heathrow stand/taxiway 195 minutes with no gate return — breaching tarmac charter.
One-click legal docket
Bundles timestamped lat/lon/alt transponder pings, raw METAR, and statute citation into a SHA-256 JSON claim packet.
AIRTRUTH PROVESPacket AT-VTIFU sealed with 5 Mode-S coordinates & SHA-256 proof for immediate €600 / $650 / ₹10,000 filing.
Trackers show when you landed. AIRTRUTH gives you the radar receipt.
Everything runs right on this website: paste your flight code or PNR SMS above, verify whether other jets departed the same runway cleanly, and download your own signed statutory demand packet—keep 100% of your payout.
Show live map dots and raw delay minutes, but leave you on your own to look up METARs, prove selective weather lies, or cite EU261 / DGCA / US DOT law.
Paid pro tools surface internal airline GDS codes or FAA tower alerts—great for status, not built to output SHA-256 passenger claim packets or grievance letters.
Charge ~25–35%+ of your statutory payout to file paperwork. AIRTRUTH builds your exact radar contradiction docket and pre-written demand letter right here for zero fee.
Inspect live passenger evidence cards across IndiGo, Delta, and British Airways.
Extracted automatically from a single Flight No.
- Tail-Number 4-Leg ChainingActive on site
- Live NOAA METAR Weather FetchActive on site
- Parallel Runway Departure CounterActive on site
- Crew FDTL / FAR 117 Duty CheckActive on site
- PNR SMS Flight & Route ExtractorActive on site
- Signed SHA-256 Claim Packet (.json)Active on site
- Pre-Filled Airline Demand LetterActive on site
- Official Regulator PDF ExportRoadmap
Public radar beats airline boilerplate. Every time.
AirTruth fuses transponder history, airport meteorology, and parallel departures into one signed timeline before generating a passenger claim packet.
Eight widebodies taking off from the same runway under VMC visibility is hard proof against extraordinary-weather denials.
Tracks each registration tail back across prior hubs so morning mechanical or crew timeouts aren’t relabeled as evening weather.
Every packet seals ICAO24 hex, UTC timestamps, latitude/longitude, and altitude under deterministic SHA-256 verification.
Deterministic statute math. Signed coordinates, not guesses.
Compensation tiers, rebuttal thresholds, and regulatory charters are encoded as versioned policy. Once telemetry contradicts an excuse, the payout packet is automatic.
# deterministic statutory charter rules
statutes:
eu261: { min_delay_min: 180, tiers_eur: [250, 400, 600] }
us_dot: { min_delay_min: 180, auto_refund_usd: 650, tarmac_max_min: 180 }
dgca: { min_delay_min: 120, tiers_inr: [5000, 7500, 10000] }
rebuttal_detectors:
tail_chain_lookback_legs: 4
selective_weather_min_peer_takeoffs: 3
crew_fdtl_overage_exempts_weather: true
signing:
algorithm: adsb-sha256
Weather claim rebutted: Mumbai crew FDTL timeout 6h prior
4-leg rotation chain slipped +170m + 8 peer departures off VIDP RWY 28.
ATC flow excuse rebutted: Zero FAA Ground Delay Program
APU defect at BOS cascaded through ATL/ORD/DTW; FAR 117 timeout hit at JFK.
Heathrow fog denial overturned: 8 jets departed RWY 27R
EGLL METAR 8000m VMC; Wallentin-Hermann extraordinary exemption invalid.
Three airlines. Three aviation regimes. One truth engine.
Explore synthetic live flight sandboxes and statutory audit breakdowns for IndiGo, Delta, and British Airways.
IndiGo
India · Domestic Trunk
- Tail-Number Chain Masking41.2%
- Selective Weather (VMC Open)23.6%
- Crew FDTL Timeout18.4%
Delta
USA · Transcontinental Hub
- False ATC / Flow Claim35.8%
- 4-Leg Hub Cascade29.4%
- FAR 117 Crew Expiry19.2%
British Airways
UK/EU · Long-Haul & Short-Haul
- Selective Weather (RWY Open)44%
- Inbound Long-Haul Knock-On26.5%
- Tarmac Tow / Gate Tug Hold14.3%
Questions passengers ask first.
Straight answers on how claims work. See the verification method for full statutory formulas.
01How does AirTruth prove a weather excuse is false?
It fuses four live aviation streams on every flight: the specific tail number’s prior 4 rotation legs from ADS-B, airport METAR visibility/ceiling observations, parallel runway departures showing how many jets took off cleanly in the same window, and FAA/DGCA Ground Delay Program logs.
02What makes Tail-Number Chaining legally decisive?
Your flight wasn’t delayed by afternoon rain if the assigned airframe—such as VT-IFU—already slipped 3 hours earlier due to a Mumbai crew timeout or turnaround defect. Prior cascading operational delays remain airline-attributable under EU261, UK261, US DOT, and Indian DGCA charters.
03What is inside the statutory payout claim packet?
A deterministic JSON/docket bundle containing the contradicted excuse, 4-leg rotation timestamps, simultaneous runway departures, raw METAR string, crew FDTL exhaustion log, exact statute calculation (€600 / $650 / ₹10,000), and cryptographically SHA-256 signed ADS-B coordinates.
04Can airlines or claims platforms embed this or use it directly on the site?
Both. Passengers can enter any flight number directly on this site for instant claim verification, and engineering teams can call the verification API or embed the AirTruth Flight Widget in travel portals to emit signed claim packets automatically.
05Which passenger compensation laws are supported?
Three complete statutory profiles ship out of the box: EU Regulation 261/2004 (and UK261), US DOT 14 CFR Part 259/260 automatic cash refund & tarmac rules, and India’s DGCA CAR Section 3, Series M Part IV charter.
06Does AirTruth ever fabricate weather or telemetry facts?
Never. Every claim packet and passenger explanation is deterministically derived from timestamped Mode-S pings, NOAA/IMD METAR reports, and airport slot logs. Any optional language phrasing is strictly checked against the verified record.
