It was the plot heard around the world. In a change from the official itinerary, the onboard transponder of U.S. Air Force-operated Boeing C-40C “SPAR19” sent out positional mapping data that indicated that the aircraft intended to fly north of the Philippines, toward Taipei, instead of its originally presumed destination of South Korea. FlightRadar24 identified that some 2.9 million users were tracking the flightpath of the plane, before the website briefly crashed due to user overload. The aircraft carrying Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of the United States, touched down in Taiwan on Tuesday night, among a fleet of...