{"id":20448,"date":"2022-04-19T05:02:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T05:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=20448"},"modified":"2022-04-19T05:02:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T05:02:42","slug":"russian-plane-takes-15000km-detour-to-pick-diplomats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/04\/19\/russian-plane-takes-15000km-detour-to-pick-diplomats\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian plane takes 15,000km detour to pick diplomats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-reactid=\".sq4qf1jta0.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-625e2e6d77811a20d37c8ed7.0.6.0.0:$post_0\">A plane sent from Moscow to pick up expelled Russian diplomats from Greece and then Spain was forced to make a 15,000km detour due to a EU flight ban, flight-tracking website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flightradar24.com\/blog\/russian-roundabout-a-long-way-to-go-for-some-expelled-diplomats\/?fbclid=IwAR1UwhGDpRAGhldM5FG8g0WPO4eQ0CFhF9zJCb8YvP0f\">FlightRadar24 reports.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".sq4qf1jta0.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-625e2e6d77811a20d37c8ed7.0.6.0.0:$post_1\">&#8220;While Spain and Greece made a one-time exception for the aircraft to enter their airspace, the flights navigated around other countries that maintain bans on Russian flights,&#8221; the website said.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".sq4qf1jta0.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-625e2e6d77811a20d37c8ed7.0.6.0.0:$post_2\">It added that the total length of the flight was 15,163 km, &#8220;just shy of the current world\u2019s longest flight between Singapore and New York&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Plane sent from Moscow to collect expelled Russian diplomats from Spain, then Greece, was forced to make 15K detour because of EU flight ban\u2014almost as long as world&#39;s longest flight between Singapore and New York, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/flightradar24?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@flightradar24<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lsQrF124pH\">https:\/\/t.co\/lsQrF124pH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4gyN1Ihkrr\">pic.twitter.com\/4gyN1Ihkrr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lucian Kim (@Lucian_Kim) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Lucian_Kim\/status\/1516247218696638468?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plane sent from Moscow to pick up expelled Russian diplomats from Greece and then Spain was forced to make a 15,000km detour due to a EU flight ban, flight-tracking website FlightRadar24 reports. &#8220;While Spain and Greece made a one-time exception for the aircraft to enter their airspace, the flights navigated around other countries that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":20449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[11363,8348,5663,159,5934,5994,11355,11638,5993,5340,990,11973,6830,5217,4064,4293,5350,36],"class_list":["post-20448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-aircraft","tag-ban","tag-diplomats","tag-eu","tag-expelled","tag-expelled-diplomats","tag-flight","tag-forced","tag-greece","tag-moscow","tag-new-york","tag-one","tag-plane","tag-russian","tag-singapore","tag-spain","tag-twitter","tag-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}