Flight tracking file dump regarding the illegal & stealth gold smuggling connections of UAE, Sudan & more.
All documentations in this zip file.
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#KeepEyesOnSudan
🧵flight analysis by source:
“Let's start with Aircraft Boeing 777-2FB(LR):
Flight takes off from UAE at around 12:30 PM, you can see that all flights Info is N/A,
It heads directly towards Sudan but skips all relevant airports, destination is still unknown”
“At 16:56 the aircraft turns off its radar near "Nagoba", a bit North to Alfashir City
I stayed waiting for it to
resurface, knowing that "Nagoba" is less than 100 KM away from Dagalo's gold mining site at Jabal Amir”
“When I realised that the flight took too long, I rewind and zoom out, just to notice that it goes live on the Radar right by the borders of Chad at 18:20 (1 hour and 20 minutes later) and continue it's journey towards equatorial Guinea and descends there”
“The time delay + the disappearances didn't make sense, so I rewind to see if I missed something, then I noticed that it was followed by another flight that also came from UAE, with no information available, so now I rewind to follow aircraft B-747-444 from the start”
“Which also ends up going off radar (and actually slows down and starts descending) , a bit north to the location of the first aircraft at 17:10”
“Note: That the three locations are extremely close to eachother, and no commercial flight has any business passing by there, let alone descending and going off the radar”
“But this flight turns on it's Radar almost an hour late already inside
Chad airspace, and immediately descends at NDjamena briefly before it took off again towards equatorial guinea too”
“This makes me curious about the identity of these aircrafts that took off from UAE, to make these stealth stops at this dangerous place, specially that neither of them is really a small private aircraft.”
“The timing shows that one was only covering for the other, from a distance one would think it was just one flight that lagged on the radar and went live again”
“So I started researching to see if any aircrafts of the same make ever left UAE on a suspicious route.
Note that the (BCF) means
(Boeing Converted Freighter) & there aren't many of those active in that area, and UAE only had One connected to it, which left its airspace before..
going to Turkey multiple times & to Sudan (same route) a few times too
So it was easy to get the call sign and the tail number.
So l checked planespotters and got the rest of the aircraft details.
It belonged to a company called
Terra Avia”
“I go on Terra Avia's website, which from the first glance looked poorly made, almost like a dummy website, and all the information on it referenced aircrafts that I saw that UAE had in their fleet..
nothing else "real" on the website but paragraphs on paragraphs about Terra Avia's mission (almost template texts) and the page with it's
"achievements" /UAE's”
“To double check and confirm, I go on another scanner & check the registry number of Terra Avia's aircraft, to see it is the same that I saw earlier (you can see it leaving UAE at the exact time & taking the same route as the unidentified B-747-444(BCF)
So that’s confirmed”
“Now I go back to the other aircraft, and look it up on the scanner (checking the timing and the route) to get the reg. And information, and now it's identified as P4-SKN
Which I find is owned by equatorial Guinea and is solely used for government related flights”
“Through more investigation online, I noticed that the 737
Royal Jet Guinea uses that it got from Turkey and the B-777 that Equatorial Guinea is using, were both previously owned by UAE”.
“The more I kept looking, the more ties I saw between Equatorial Guineas dictator and the UAE government, and of course, the repeated flights throughout the months between them and RSF's Illegal Gold mine at Jabal Amir.”
“I have also been tracking UAE's gold operation and what happens to it.
But that's where I had to take a step back for now, for my own safety”
icij.org/investigations…
🧵 end.
Big thank you to my source for putting the time & effort to keep his eyes open not only on the ground but in the sky too!
This reveals the flight patterns & tactics UAE uses re: gold smuggling within Sudan, Chad & Equatorial Guinea that funds the RSF & even Russia. End
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