AN eagle-eyed photographer snapped the RAF plane carrying HM Queen Elizabeth II's coffin over Cumbria. 

Emma Nicholson from Allonby was one of more than 5 million people tracking the Queen's flight on tracker website Flightradar24 from Edinburgh to RAF Northolt. 

A further 296,000 people followed the flight via YouTube live stream. 

As millions around the world followed the final flight of Queen Elizabeth II Emma Nicholson grabbed her camera and managed to snap pictures of the RAF carrier which she spotted coming over the Solway Firth and Allonby.

Mrs Nicholson who lives in Allonby said: "We put the flight on plane finder to follow it not realising it was coming over us until we saw the route.

"It was just heading over the Solway when we went into the garden me my husband and my son and watched it fly over our garden."

The flight was tracked passing over Allonby, Keswick and Kendal before landing at RAF Northolt near London. 

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