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About amazing plane Bulgarian authorities announced 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 LRT.
Ramunas Matonis, a spokesman for the Bulgarian Police Department, said that the pre-trial investigation into the case had not yet begun, because “circumstances are being clarified” so far.
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 escorted 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.
“These were not Lithuanians. We spoke with one person in Russian … I do not know the names of those men, I was not interested,” the former owner of the aircraft said.
The man added that he was acquired by some organization, the name of which 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. Therefore, I am glad that they bought it … I don’t remember which organization acquired 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 the mysterious plane that flew without permission through the whole of Eastern Europe was found in Bulgaria at a private airport on the coast of the Black Sea.
So, on Thursday, June 9, a twin-engine Beechcraft aircraft was found on the runway of a private airport in northeastern Bulgaria, through which fighters in two NATO countries had taken off the day before.
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