A day after Israel attacked Iran on Friday, a cargo plane took off from China. The next day, a second plane departed from a coastal city. Then on Monday, yet another departed, this time from Shanghai – three flights in three days.
Data showed that on each flight, the plane flew westward along northern China, crossing into Kazakhstan, then south into Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan – and then falling off the radar as it neared Iran.
To add to the mystery, flight plans indicated a final destination of Luxembourg, but the aircraft appeared to have never flown near European skies.
Aviation experts have noted that the type of plane used, Boeing 747 freighters, are commonly used for transporting military equipment and weapons, and hired to fly government contract orders.
That’s Cargolux, the Luxembourgeois (yes, that’s the actual adjective) flag carrier airline.
From the picture of the mystery flight, it seems like tracking signal was lost and the plane was simulated by flightradar to be continuing flying straight in its previous path.
It’s pretty common, especially around the Black Sea. You often see planes supposedly fly into Ukraine for example. The Caucasus - Central Asia corridor has also become very crowded due to western airlines’ refusal to use Russian air space for Asian travel.
Any mystery deliveries would probably happen with military planes, without transponders on. And definitely not with a western company.
Good catch. I have put the post on hidden for now as this indicates it to be nothing more than a mapping error.
Lmao, the comments in the article is stuff like
my bets on a nuclear bomb
maybe we shouldn’t be worried about what they’re delivering, but what they’re clearing out
Yeah, china can’t make their own nukes so they had Iran do it for them and are now going to bomb a European city with it
Suddenly this makes a lot more sense https://lemmy.ml/post/31844812
China just finished a railroad straight to Iran too, right?
