I was (in fact, still am) tracking a flight from Paris to Mumbai in real time - https://uk.flightaware.com/live/flight/JAI123/history/20170606/0935Z/LFPG/VABB<p>A few minutes earlier, just off the coast of Mumbai (~ 150 miles out), the tracker showed the flight doing a 360 loop; it still shows on the map at the URL above, and then it resumed on course.<p>I've tracked flights before, but never encountered anything like this. I wonder what gives.
It's a holding pattern. Commonly used when there is a lot of traffic at in the destination airspace.<p><a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Fly-a-Holding-Pattern" rel="nofollow">http://www.wikihow.com/Fly-a-Holding-Pattern</a>