AFP via Le Monde reports on yet more Greek/Turkish sabrerattling and playing with high-performance jets. According to the Greeks, no less than fifty-six Turkish aircraft were involved in some 16 frontier violations (never mind the maths!), including 40 F-16s and 16 F-4 Phantoms, of which 8 aircraft (type not given) were armed. (The original report…
Read More They just won’t stop it!I’ve been handed the report that an Antonov 26 belonging to something called “Kisangani Air List” has been crashed in the DRC by our esteemed colleague Soj. Rather, Soj handed me the report. She didn’t crash the Antonov 26, or at least I don’t think so. At the moment, I can offer little further information…
Read More Congo IncidentBack in January, I asked What’s Up in the Yemen? after noticing regular flights by Irbis Air Co., a Kazakh-registered airline owned by Viktor Bout and now placed on the US Treasury seizure list, from Sharjah to Riyan-Mukalla airport in the eastern Yemen. Since then, we’ve seen confirmation of this with the crash there of…
Read More What Is, In Fact, Going On in the Yemen