Saturday, May 10, 2014

Rogozin comes back to Moscow from Moldova despite Ukraine’s. --Bulgarian and Romanian ATC had asked him if there was “a banned passenger” aboard.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said he had returned to Moscow from Moldova’s breakaway Transdniestrian Republic even though his plane had been forced by Ukrainian interceptors to fly back to Chisinau.
“Ukrainian interceptor aircraft forced our plane to make a U-turn,” Rogozin wrote in his Twitter account on Saturday, May 10.

Several minutes later he added: “But the defence industry has its own trails. I am already in Moscow. And the [Kiev] junta left in the basket.” To prove his words, Rogozin posted a photo of himself against the building of Moscow’s Domodedovo airport.

The Russian Embassy in Chisinau told ITAR-TASS that Rogozin must have travelled to Russia by a regular flight and was not on the plane intercepted over Ukraine.

Rogozin’s plane had to return to Chisinau on after having flown into Ukraine’s airspace on the way to Moscow.

The plane, Yak-42 of the RUSJET airline, tail number 9602, flew out of Chisinau, entered Ukraine’s airspace, flew several kilometres into it, made a U-turn and flew back to Chisinau, according to the Flightradar-24 air traffic monitoring system.

“Romania has closed its airspace for my plane on U.S. demand. Ukraine is not letting us through again,” Rogozin said and stressed, however, that he was not going to cancel trips to Transdniestria. “Next time I will fly by Tupolev-160 [strategic bomber],” he said.
Ukraine closed its airspace for flights to and from Crimea and landings in Sevastopol since the peninsula’s accession to Russia in March of this year. The airspace over Crimea is now controlled by Russia and its aviation authorities.

Rogozin also experienced difficulty getting to Transdniestria two days ago. His  plane en route to Chisinau was not allowed to enter Ukraine’s airspace on May 8, and had to take a detour via Bulgaria and Romania.
“As it turned out, it will take four and a half hours to get to Chisinau via Bulgaria and Romania. Ukraine is not letting us in,” Rogozin wrote on Twitter.
“It’s good that Ukraine is not Russia. Otherwise, the bypass would have taken 20 hours or so,” he added.
His plane pilot told him afterward that Bulgarian and Romanian air traffic controlled had asked him if there was “a banned passenger” aboard. “They were going to get interceptor aircraft up in the air,” Rogozin said............[http://en.itar-tass.com/russia/731093]
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  1. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said the aircraft on which he had been returning to Moscow on Saturday after a visit to Moldova's breakaway Transdniestria province was turned back by Ukrainian fighter jets after entering Ukrainian air space....

    "Ukrainian interceptors turned our plane back," Rogozin wrote on Twitter. He cited Moldovan media reports as saying Mikoyan MiG fighters had made his aircraft reverse, Interfax reports.

    Earlier on Saturday, Rogozin said both Ukraine and Romania were denying him permission to fly over them.

    "Romania has closed its air space to my plane at the demand of the United States. Ukraine again refuses to let it through," he tweeted.
    Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_05_10/Plane-of-Russian-deputy-PM-pushed-out-of-Ukraine-air-space-by-warplanes-0067/
    10/5/14

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