No you cannot. You cannot easily find someone's address from looking at their plate. You need more information, or to do some advanced searching. It is simply not the same.
CodeInvasion
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It is different because you typically need to know the municipality I live in first.
Also the registration allows anyone to track me anytime I fly.
How would you feel if you had a public gps transponder on your car publicly showing who you, where you are, and where you live? Also what if you are required to plaster that registration number on the side of your vehicle in large letters that can be seen from a block away?
It's a massive invasion of personal privacy.
Shitposters ride for free
This is actually most helpful to the little guys that own $20,000 airplanes.
I have a small airplane and it's always bothered me that my name and address are publicly accessible through the FAA registry.
Most pilots I know are careful about photos they publish online showing their tail number printed in large bold letters on either side of the aircraft. This registration number can be entered into websites like flightaware.com and someone is literally two clicks from seeing my full name and home address.
Definitely, but I was more referring to this recent bout.
This is simply false.
The Houthis are not a state. There are a rebel faction in a civil war in Yemen.
Even if it were the Yemen government banning ships from it's waters it's can't do that by international law. They don't own the whole strait.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bab-el-Mandeb
Lastly, a UN resolution passed that outlaws this behavior.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_2722
The US and international allies have been frequently attacking Houthi rebels since January 2024.
There were even memes about it.
I never said the attack itself was justified. I only answered the question.
A more targeted strike was possible, and it's reprehensible that one was not chosen.
The target himself was a legal target even by the most strict interpretation of armed conflict international law.
A targeted strike was absolutely possible. So many innocents did not need to die.
Unfortunately it's always been the case for as long as humans have had war that the civilian casualty ratio is around 50% to 90%.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualty_ratio
Edit: Apparently the 90% figure is a myth. According to the wiki it's much more likely to be 50% to 60%.
Are you actually asking?
The Houthi's are an Iranian controlled terrorist organization that have been attacking commercial shipping in the Red Sea since November 2023.
The Houthis have sunk two vessels and killed four crew members, forcing a lot of shipping to Europe to be diverted around the South of Africa.
The US and allies have been fighting the Iranian-backed Houthis for over a decade, this is just a recent resurgence following the war in Israel.
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Absolutely air traffic in the sky should be identified. There is no problem with that, but it's the idea that it is too easy to find out everything about an aircraft owner by simply seeing the number on their tail.
The rich guys obfuscate that info with shell corps to own the aircraft.
Shouldn't everyone have the right to the same level of privacy regardless of how much money they have?