Lithuanian police investigate the circumstances of the flight of a mysterious plane that flew through airspace without permission six NATO member countries and landed in Bulgaria.
The amazing aircraft was reported to the Bulgarian authorities on Thursday. It took off from Lithuania and flew over Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Romania without permission and landed in Bulgaria. Having flown about 1600 km, the unknown crew left the plane immediately after landing.
This is reported by LRT.
Representative of the Bulgarian Police Department Ramunas Matonis said that the pre-trial investigation into the case has not yet begun, because while “circumstances are being clarified”.
It has now become known that there were two people on the plane. The aircraft did not have an approved flight plan, and the aircraft's transponders were turned off. In addition, the pilot did not react in any way to radio requests and visual signals, and in Hungary and Romania the plane to Bulgaria was accompanied by fighters. Air navigation reported that the plane's crew did not contact the operators and did not receive flight plans.
It also became known that pilot Bronius Zaronskis sold the mysterious plane last week. However, according to the man, the identity of the buyer is unknown to him.
“They weren't Lithuanians. We spoke with one person in Russian… I don't know the names of those men, I wasn't interested,” the former owner of the plane said.
The man added that he was purchased by some an organization whose name was very incomprehensible.
“I sold and said goodbye to this aircraft. I have been selling it for many years, because I had nowhere to put it. So I am glad that they bought it.. “I don't remember which organization bought it. Some hieroglyphs were written in a foreign language, it's hard to even read,” Zaronskis said.
According to the man, the plane was a six-seater, and the people who bought it were friendly.
Recall that a mysterious plane that flew without permission through all of Eastern Europe was found in Bulgaria at a private airfield on the Black Sea coast.
Thus, on Thursday, June 9, at the take-off strip of a private airport in north-eastern Bulgaria, a Beechcraft twin-engine aircraft was discovered, through which the day before it was lifted into the air and fighters in two NATO countries.
