US 'spy plane' makes emergency landing in Russia after 'problem with its landing gear'

[don-o]

US 'spy plane' makes emergency landing in Russia after 'problem with its landing gear'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3712608/US-spy-plane-makes-emergency-landing-Russia-problem-landing-gear.html#ixzz4FiKKHlMR

    The surveillance Boeing OC-135B aircraft was flying a mission over Siberia
    Problem with landing gear prompted emergency landing in eastern Russia
    Treaty on Open Skies allows signatories to overfly the skies of each other
    But Russia has now questioned whether the technical glitch was genuine

A United States 'spy plane' has made an emergency landing in eastern Russia, it has emerged today.

The surveillance Boeing OC-135B aircraft was flying a mission over Siberia as allowed under the Treaty on Open Skies when it reported a problem with its landing gear.

The unarmed plane made an emergency landing at Khabarovsk airport, but a military source in Russia has questioned whether the technical glitch was genuine.

Under the treaty, signatories are allowed to overfly the skies of each other gathering information about military forces and activities of concern to them.

The American military aircraft had left after a stopover in Ulan-Ude, in the Republic of Buryatia, and was due to fly north to Yakutsk, capital of Siberia's diamond-rich Sakha Republic.

Instead, after take-off the crew noticed the problem and the Boeing went east and made a landing 1,660 miles away in Khabarovsk.

exc

[don-o]

Filed under:

"I did not know that."

[skeeter]

US 'spy plane' makes emergency landing in Russia after 'problem with its landing gear'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3712608/US-spy-plane-makes-emergency-landing-Russia-problem-landing-gear.html#ixzz4FiKKHlMR

    The surveillance Boeing OC-135B aircraft was flying a mission over Siberia
    Problem with landing gear prompted emergency landing in eastern Russia
    Treaty on Open Skies allows signatories to overfly the skies of each other
    But Russia has now questioned whether the technical glitch was genuine

A United States 'spy plane' has made an emergency landing in eastern Russia, it has emerged today.

The surveillance Boeing OC-135B aircraft was flying a mission over Siberia as allowed under the Treaty on Open Skies when it reported a problem with its landing gear.

The unarmed plane made an emergency landing at Khabarovsk airport, but a military source in Russia has questioned whether the technical glitch was genuine.

Under the treaty, signatories are allowed to overfly the skies of each other gathering information about military forces and activities of concern to them.

The American military aircraft had left after a stopover in Ulan-Ude, in the Republic of Buryatia, and was due to fly north to Yakutsk, capital of Siberia's diamond-rich Sakha Republic.

Instead, after take-off the crew noticed the problem and the Boeing went east and made a landing 1,660 miles away in Khabarovsk.

exc

Couldn't they have come up with a different excuse for needing to land?

[Fishrrman]

Please forgive me, I'm stupid.

But -- if the problem was with the "landing gear", why land...?

Why not just keep flying?

.... to a more "friendly" country and airport?

[Idaho_Cowboy]

Sounds fishy. Unless the gear was down causing them to suck down extra fuel and they could go nowhere else, why do this. Wouldn't it make more sense to go somewhere with a mechaniski who knows more about the planeski to make the fixski.

[thackney]

Sounds fishy. Unless the gear was down causing them to suck down extra fuel and they could go nowhere else, why do this. Wouldn't it make more sense to go somewhere with a mechaniski who knows more about the planeski to make the fixski.

after take-off the crew noticed the problem and the Boeing went east and made a landing 1,660 miles away in Khabarovsk.

Were they trying to make it out of the country and then was not able to make it far enough?

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Khabarovsk,+Khabarovsk+Krai,+Russia/Ulan-Ude,+Buryatia,+Russia/@39.3853659,79.1617335,3z/data=!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x5efae9bc5b77255d:0xd9dcd2723b651256!2m2!1d135.0662599!2d48.5027313!1m5!1m1!1s0x5dafdb196f6730cb:0x38da928c03aec496!2m2!1d107.607338!2d51.8238785!3e4