I could spend all day just tracking planes and never get bored, even just monitoring regularly scheduled flights. But this must be one of the most bizarre flights to ever operate, as noted on airliners.net. As we see the continued path of this flight, we’re getting a clearer picture of what’s going on here.
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Stefania, stefania!!!!!!!
What are you waiting to make a post about it?
Also check the song and video done by the Opera of Vilnius!
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This airline is infamous for delivering weapons to countries like Myanmar, Iran, etc. Here is an article that provides a lot of background information, lists owners, explains how they are linked to Transaviaexport, another shady Belarusian airline (now they call themselves TAE Avia) that was sanctioned by the US government
https://euroradio.fm/en/why-belarus-opposes-ban-arms-sales-myanmar
A plane operating between multiple second or third world countries is obviously shady because ... because ... because anything that doesn't involve the West must be shady because the West is the best don't question it just accept it.
right.. the poor misunderstood Belarusians are transporting Lybian oranges to Venezuela using this fuel efficient plane 🙂
@ Bruce -- Oh c'mon. There are thousands of cargo flights in the developing world daily, and I don't write about those. Like VitaliU hinted at, do you really think the airline is transporting avocados between Mexico and Venezuela, or...?
If you think Rada is shady, you are barely scratching the surface of the cargo world!
Don’t be silly. If we all found a Boeing 757 or even a prop plane with ex-U.S. registry flying between Florida and unusual spots in Latin America and the Caribbean, we would also be $u$piciou$
Hey Ben,
If you like tracking flights look at FRA-SVQ.
Background: Last week Frankfurt Soccer Team qualified for the UEFA Euroleague final (which is in Seville). Today there are 35 additional flights between Frankfurt and Seville - and it’s fun/interesting to analyze the ferry flights.
In addition to 50.000 supporters from Frankfurt, authorities expect 100.000 supporters from Glasgow…
I havent got enough info for a theory, neither do you. It's fun to speculate but this speculation uses every negative stereotype of every country. It highlights how poorly you view some countries.
These are the shadiest cargo flights
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Very interesting indeed, probably two of the most hardcore group of supporters playing in a huge game. Interested in the operations that go into these ferry flights, reminds me of when i had a scheduled flight from LHR to Nice on an a319 and got plane swapped to a 777 when england advanced to play a euro game in nice. Talk about a nice upgrade in J!
I know it's not oranges, it's obviously the missing ballots from the 2020 us elections along with a few kilos of cocaine from mexico, sand from lybia, and pistachios from Iran.
The stoping barbados was for loading up hoards of cash to pay for said items, taken from the personal account of Putin.
There you go, easy peasy
The plane went out of its way to avoid Israeli airspace - which AFAIK there would be no need to do as a Belarusian flagged plane - so I assume it’s flying somewhere with hostile relations with Israel. Iran is the obvious one, but it’s pretty far south to still be landing somewhere in Iran. Karachi maybe? We’ll see soon enough…
Nothing unusual.
Israeli airspace is only used for traffic to/from Israel and Jordan.
One night think that gulf carriers, which now floor to Israel, would overfly it to save time, but in fact they never do.
You're not kidding! Started reading... and wow! Everything from discussing ferries, soccer, oranges and avocados to PETA, elections and baby formula! Even Ben couldn't have predicted that!
Passed Iran now, my guess would now be Myanmar, it'd certainly be an interesting turn if the regime there was getting weapons from Venezuela...
Thanks to the efforts of peta - We recently received information that 3 macaques transported 120 humans torn away from their families in Venezuela to Cambodia on May 17, 2022. *Cue X-files music*
The aircraft is now in India, so its destination is not Iran. My guess is Myanmar
Shadiest cargo flight ever was from Japan to Lebanon carrying musical equipment.
Question to ponder ....
I'd be willing to bet that USA/NATO has increased cargo flights to Poland.
I'd also bet that if such flights make a refueling stop, it will be in USA/NATO friendly countries.
So I wonder if there's a Russian Travel Blogger somewhere calling these flights "shady" ??
My guess is that the long Barbados layover was for crew rest and/or maint.
LOL so true! Or was it the greatest escape ever?
Another candidate for shadiest flight is when a plane was filled with 600 million dollars in cash was flown from the US to Iran, payback from years of sanctions.
The plane has landed in Ahmedabad, India (according to the flightaware link in the post).
Wonder if George Lucas got any of his ideas for Chewbacca, Han Solo, the Millenium Falcon and Mos Eisley ("hive of scum and villainy") from cargo flights like this.
Gun running, with a touch of Mexico's finest nose candy to keep the comrades awake
Sinaloa needs drugs, not weapons. Myanmar needs weapons, not drugs. Caracas needs money. Rada says we'll do the transport, to which CCS says, done, but only if you do this little side gig to Sinaloa for us. The stop in BGI was to pick up hard cash in those fancy armored cases from an account held by the Junta in one of the off-shore accounts that the island hosts. That purchases the weapons, which will be delivered after Rada takes the drugs to Sinaloa and ferries that hard cash back to CCS. Once all that is done, off they go. The MJI isn't part of this particular transaction other than the plane is probably somewhat based there to avoid European sanctions? Just a haphazard guess of course - it may very well just be oranges and spices
So we're playing conspiracy theories here huh?
Maybe another state sponsored proxy civil war in Myanmar happening soon?
Some invisible hand seems the be actively staging a 'regime' or 'coup'.
Or just some Covid-19 vaccines and PPE.
Hard to say of course but I'm going to assume hard Dollars or maybe Euros are being transported in trade for drugs and smuggled parts that are hard to get in Russia. Russia doesn't likely need drugs or guns but it might need parts or currency. Kind of reminds me of the movie The Peacemaker where George Clooney is telling congressional members that he bought a Russian contacts daughter a Ford Explorer. Say you need some hard-to-get machine parts, computers, or whatever. The seller isn't going to take Rubles at this moment in time. They likely want US dollars or will barter for something they need like drugs or guns. So you go to seller A to get drugs to give to seller B and so forth. The other odd stops are for fuel. Cash makes the ground ops much easier. It doesn't explain what they used to buy the drugs to give to the seller of what they really wanted. They could trade gold but why the middle man unless it's terrorism. Could be transporting bad actors into Mexico to walk across our unguarded border in our proxy war with Russia.
Wow Lucky! SHOCKED, SHOCKED!
Now get on the flight tracking history and dig out the "rat line" reported by Seymour Hersh about the weapons transfers from Libya after Gaddafi was killed into Syria to facilitate more regime change. They supplied Al Nursra.
Or hundreds of Gulfsteam flights delivering human cargo to black sites for "enhanced interrogation".
Or back in history, the triangle from the US to Iran to Nicaragua to supply the Contras. Before you were born...
Or CIA's Air America in Laos, Burma and Vietnam doing drugs and weapons.
Pot calling the kettle black, no?
All that way for some Tequila ? No wonder that plane took off so low !!!
Or maybe the pilots were drinking the cargo ?
Hmm
Ben just wants to know HOW nuts the comments get. Social experiment. Sinaloa = food. Go read some labels in your local produce dept.
The stop in Bridgetown was probably for crew rest to avoid the crew having the leave the airport in caracas. You've reported in the past about AA service to caracas doing something similar.
Reminds of the triangle route Iran Air operated with a 747SP between Caracas - Damascus - Tehran, guess the revenue was in the cargo section...
Apparently due to a “fat finger error”, staff at the new Hyatt Ziva in Barbados accidentally ordered millions of moustache curlers for the hotel salon. The only places they could resell such a huge number of products designed to create the perfect “gangsta tash” at short notice were Caracas, Sinaloa, Yangon, and Minsk. Nothing dodgy going on at all.
Please track flights from Chimore, Bolivia, I guarantee you those are even shadier!!!
Exotic animal shipment from Mazatlan to Jamnagar/Ahmedabad for the new "biggest zoo in India" -
Technical landings in Libya and Caracas are for very cheap refueling probably - that's something modern expensive aircraft cannot afford due to high risk and insurance costs, but ok for soviet planes. With a bunch of experts here nobody is talking about IL62's takeoff weight, max range, how an aircraft can go for 30+ hours without a crew rest, and why landing at Casablanca is made and not in Libya on the way back!? You need to study the subject better guys 😉
IL62 is an incredible narrowbody aircraft that overpowers even famous 757. I'm sure the crew has been changed at some point in between. And as fast as Casablanca is concerned, Moroccan government has been strangely critical of Maduro, so they might not authorize any aircraft landing from Caracas directly even for a fuel stop