President #Putin's plane avoiding #Baltic airspace on way from #Moscow to #G20Summit in #Hamburg: https://t.co/pa9HiKnk1W pic.twitter.com/PYO4i0G6cE— VykintasPugačiauskas (@pugaciauskas) July 7, 2017
Sputnik: Here's Why Putin's Plane Skirted NATO's Eastern Flank on Approach to G20 Summit
The aircraft carrying Russian President Vladimir Putin to the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany made almost a 500 km detour over Finland and the Baltic Sea to avoid flying over NATO's Eastern flank, evading Polish and the Baltic nations' air space to make it to its destination. Russian observers pondered the most likely reason for the maneuver.
Flight tracking data from FlightRadar24 has shown that the Russian presidential Il-96-300PU flying from Moscow to Hamburg Thursday deviated from a possible direct route over Belarusian and Polish territory, instead flying over the Baltic Sea and non-NATO states Finland and Sweden before entering Danish and German airspace.
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WNU Editor: On this particular trip .... it looks like the people responsible for Russian President Putin's security got spooked on what may have been happening in Poland, and decided to take an alternative route. I also suspect that they wanted to avoid something like this over Polish airspace .... Russian Su-27 Warns Off NATO F-16 As It Approached Russian Defense Minister's Plane Over The Baltic Sea (Video) (June 21, 2017).
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Hmmm...
It's one thing for an F-16 to torment the Russian Defense Minister, and another to get close to the plane carrying the Russian President.
It be a bit like a Su-27 deciding to get very close to Air Force One... I don't think it would even get a chance to fly that close.
But, Putin's PR team are always in favour of showing a strong Russian leader. If you have even the remotest possibility that his strength will be challenged by a NATO jet, it would be a PR disaster back at home, and a win. Imagine the headlines: F-16 taunts President Putin!
I assume they wanted to avoid such a disaster, and not take the risk.
Didn't Russians kill a bunch of Polish politicians on an airplane a few years back? Was a big thing. .. that plane crashed because of "bad weather" during approach if I remember correctly..no one in Poland bought it
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Polish_Air_Force_Tu-154_crash
"Conspiracy theories have been in circulation since the day of the accident, claiming in general that the crash was in fact a political assassination, an act of war against Poland or an elaborate coup attempt, possibly orchestrated by Russia.[210][211] The range of such theories has been described by some international media as "dizzying"; from the idea that the fog around the airport had been artificially produced, to victims' bodies being doctored in fake autopsies, to the idea that explosives were planted on board the plane.[211]"
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"All of the evidence allegedly supporting alternative theories is discussed in the 2013 report of Maciej Lasek commission. For example, the bomb explosion theory is not supported by the fact that the plane's debris are concentrated in a relatively small 160x50 m area, and no parts of the plane's interior were found before the first ground contact.[217]"
Good thing nobody believes crazy Conspiracy Theories, other wise it might have consequences for Russian/Polish relations,
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