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The young man famous for tracking Elon Musk's plane now has a new target: the Russian oligarchy

The young man famous for tracking Elon Musk’s plane now has a new target: the Russian oligarchy


Last month, young Jack Sweeney became famous for the fallout from one of his Twitter accounts, through which he monitors and posts every flight of billionaire Elon Musk’s plane. Now, the 19-year-old has turned his talents onto a new topic: Russian oligarchs.

For this, he created a new account called Russian oligarch planesThey began tracking the whereabouts of some of Russia’s richest businessmen, publishing information when and where their planes take off and land. a feed Automatic posted its first tweet on Sunday and already has 146,000 followers.

Sweeney creates the account in no time Many of these few have become part of the sanctions lists Developed in response to Russian aggression against Ukraine last week. In recent days, planes and helicopters began to be repositioned in neutral countries, to avoid arrest – and everything began to appear in the boy’s novel.

The Oligarch Jets account has already tracked several flights of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich’s plane, including a Gulfsteam G650 flight this morning on March 1. The boy is watching dozens of planes.


He didn’t stop there, but created another account with the name Russian VIP and Putin Jets To track flights on planes registered to Putin and other Russian government dignitaries, even though Sweeney has alerted Don’t expect it to be very accurate since there are a lot of planes and not as much flight data in Russia as elsewhere.

The latest tracking of this account included a flight of an Ilyushin IL-96 on a Russian government service, which landed in Moscow six hours ago.