The pilot, who flew the German government plane, called flying on ice exciting.
Returning from a trip to Japan, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz had to fly across the Arctic Ocean near the North Pole in order not to land in Russian airspace. On Friday, April 29, Spiegel said.
The publication noted that usually a flight from Japan to Germany takes a direct route, via China and Russian territory, but due to the decision of European countries to evade Russian airspace, the route was changed.
“In Tokyo, the Airbus A350 aircraft with Scholz flew to Poland, Romania, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and China, which took 13 hours. Back in Berlin, the chancellor flew to the US state of Alaska, flew over the Arctic Ocean, crossed the North Pole and reached Finland as far as Germany, “the edition described Scholz’s route.
The flight at a distance of 12.3 thousand km took about 13.5 hours.
So, Spiegel says, Scholz’s flight time was longer than his entire visit to Japan, which lasted about 20 hours.
The pilot, who flew the government plane, called the flight exciting. According to Michael Weierer, this is his second flight to the North Pole. The first was in 2013 a flight from Laos to New York city in America with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle.
Recall that in recent days NATO fighters have risen several times to intercept Russian aircraft in the Baltic and Black Seas.
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