Millions of people tried to watch the plane carrying the coffin offrom Edinburgh, Scotland, to London, England, on Tuesday using a popular flight tracking app — so many that the service crashed.
"We are currently experiencing heavy load and are working to bring the service back as soon as possible," read the message onshortly after the Royal Air Force Boeing C-17 Globemaster III took off from Edinburgh Airport en route to RAF Northolt in London.
According to the company, nearly 6 million people attempted to follow the queen’s final flight moments before its departure, causing “disruption to the platform.” The service was brought back online during the one hour flight, but less than 300,000 were tracking it by the time it landed. The queen’s coffin — which had been on display at St. Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh — was transported to Buckingham Palace, where it will stay before lying-in-state at the Palace of Westminster on Wednesday.On Thursday, after the palace disclosed that the queen's doctors were concerned about her health,