Small Aircraft; High Wing; 1 Eng; Retractable Gear
Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Air Traffic Control Time Certified In Pos 1 (yrs) 2
Situational Awareness; Distraction; Confusion
ATC Issue All Types; Airspace Violation All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Human Factors; Procedure; ATC Equipment / Nav Facility / Buildings
Took hand off of Aircraft X at XX:00z; he checked in gave him the altimeter and continued working. at around XX+17z; ZJX controller called and said he auto acquired the aircraft in his airspace 10 NE of 12J and had radar contact. Somehow the tag got terminated once I took radar and gave him altimeter.  He did not go into my coast/suspend list thus it was terminated by someone. I do not recall terminating it; as I had no reason to. I lost track of the flight because he was not on my scope anymore thus never initiating a hand off with ZJX controller. The aircraft flew for 30 miles in my airspace with no tag as I did a Falcon replay and the tag was dropped 1 min after I took the hand off from Elgin Approach. I think someone at another radar scope mistakenly dropped the tag and did not realize it. Don't know what could have been done from a controller point of view. If this was an automation error then I guess we could look into that.
P31 Controller reports of taking a handoff on an aircraft then the data tag mysteriously disappears a minute after taking the handoff. Aircraft flies through airspace for 30 miles without a data tag. Controller wonders who or what dropped the data tag.