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A Russian military aircraft used to transport senior officials and military personnel landed at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday evening in what Israeli public broadcaster KAN described as an “unusual” flight, Anadolu Agency reported.
The Tupolev Tu-154 arrived under unclear circumstances. KAN said it had no information about the identities of the passengers or the purpose of the visit.
The broadcaster said no similar landing had been recorded at the airport in recent years.
The plane departed from Chkalovsky Air Base near Moscow and landed at Ben Gurion Airport at about 9 p.m. local time (1900 GMT) on Sunday, KAN reported. It was first detected through a real-time flight-tracking application.
KAN said it obtained video footage of the aircraft at the Israeli airport on Monday morning. The plane was expected to leave Israel sometime on Monday, but no departure time was specified.
According to KAN, the Israeli army spokesperson, the Israeli prime minister’s office and the Russian Embassy in Israel declined to comment on the flight.
