US 'spy plane' makes emergency landing in Russia after 'problem with its landing gear'

[Levina]

US 'spy plane' makes emergency landing in Russia after 'problem with its landing gear'

• The surveillance Boeing OC-135B aircraft was flying a mission over Siberia
• Problem with landing gear prompted emergency landing in eastern Russia
• Treaty on Open Skies allows signatories to overfly the skies of each other
• But Russia has now questioned whether the technical glitch was genuine

By Will Stewart In Moscow for MailOnline

Published: 11:40 GMT, 28 July 2016 | Updated: 19:05 GMT, 28 July 2016

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ing-Russia-problem-landing-gear.html#comments
A United States 'spy plane' has made an emergency landing in eastern Russia, it has emerged today.

The surveillance Boeing OC-135B aircraft was flying a mission over Siberia as allowed under the Treaty on Open Skies when it reported a problem with its landing gear.

The unarmed plane made an emergency landing at Khabarovsk airport, but a military source in Russia has questioned whether the technical glitch was genuine.

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Under the treaty, signatories are allowed to overfly the skies of each other gathering information about military forces and activities of concern to them.

The American military aircraft had left after a stopover in Ulan-Ude, in the Republic of Buryatia, and was due to fly north to Yakutsk, capital of Siberia's diamond-rich Sakha Republic.

Instead, after take-off the crew noticed the problem and the Boeing went east and made a landing 1,660 miles away in Khabarovsk.


An airport official confirmed Wednesday's emergency landing in the city, close to the Chinese border.

'A foreign aircraft made a forced landing in Khabarovsk. All emergency ground services have arrived on site. The flight landed safely at 3pm local time,' said a statement.

Earlier, the Russian Defence Ministry's Nuclear Risk Reduction Centre had announce the US Boeing OC-135B aircraft's observation flight over Russian territory between July 25 and 30.

An army source suggested the malfunctioning was 'not coincidental', and perhaps related to recent military exercises in the area.

'They were due to go direct from Ulan-Ude north-northeast to Yakutsk,' said the unnamed source, as reported by The Siberian Times.

'Just imagine the kind of loop they needed to make to request the landing at approximately the same distance, but to the east?'..

The Boeing OC-135B aircraft seats up to 35 people as it monitors foreign territory on behalf of the US government.

One vertical and two oblique KS-87E framing cameras are used for low-altitude photography approximately 900 metres above the ground, and one KA-91C panoramic camera, which scans from side to side to provide a wide sweep for each picture used for high-altitude photography at approximately 11,000 metres.

The Treaty on Open Skies was signed in March 1992 and was seen as a major confidence-building measure after the Cold War.

It entered into force on January 1, 2002.

Currently 34 states are party to the treaty, including Russia and most NATO members

It allows an unarmed aerial surveillance programme of flights over the entire territory of fellow participants.




: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ussia-problem-landing-gear.html#ixzz4FjgIqAlu

 

[Aero]

 

[boomslang]

We just played the russians. What difference does it make where you land if you have 'landing gear problems' ? I wonder what we wanted to take a closer look at.

 

[Levina]

We just played the russians. What difference does it make where you land if you have 'landing gear problems' ? I wonder what we wanted to take a closer look at.

Russians frequently carry out many air combat exercises in the region.

 

[Technofoxxy]

US 'spy plane' makes emergency landing in Russia after 'problem with its landing gear'

Open Skies isn't exactly a spy plane, so that's sensational journalism on the part of DailyMail... in fact, Russia flies one over the US too with US permission, as do 32 other nations including most NATO member nations.

Both sides know what these aircraft are, what their doing and what their role is and take preventative measures to hide sensitive equipment while the aircraft are overhead.

All sensors on Open Skies aircraft are commercially available and known to the other side.

There has been some controversy about the Russians installing more sensitive gear on theirs, but US military officials have down played the significance of this.

I'd offer a link to support that last claim, but I can't. Sorry.

 

[ebrahym]

what we wanted to take a closer look at

well it is close to chinese border .. does that mean anything?

 

[HAIDER]

We just played the russians. What difference does it make where you land if you have 'landing gear problems' ? I wonder what we wanted to take a closer look at.

How Siberian live.

 

[boomslang]

well it is close to chinese border .. does that mean anything?

Could be.

 

[Levina]

Open Skies isn't exactly a spy plane, so that's sensational journalism on the part of DailyMail.

Yes, not a spy plane but an aerial surveillance flight. Since it is installed with low-altitude photography cameras,it does come close to a spy plane.
According to the treaty of open skies, an "unarmed" aerial surveillance flight(which must pass pre-flight inspection) is allowed to fly over the entire territory of participants (of treaty of open skies).

Just curious!
Since the imagery collected from Open Skies missions is available to any State Party upon request for the cost of reproduction, is it possible to manipulate it?

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

US 'spy plane' makes emergency landing in Russia after 'problem with its landing gear'

• The surveillance Boeing OC-135B aircraft was flying a mission over Siberia
• Problem with landing gear prompted emergency landing in eastern Russia
• Treaty on Open Skies allows signatories to overfly the skies of each other
• But Russia has now questioned whether the technical glitch was genuine

By Will Stewart In Moscow for MailOnline

Published: 11:40 GMT, 28 July 2016 | Updated: 19:05 GMT, 28 July 2016

A United States 'spy plane' has made an emergency landing in eastern Russia, it has emerged today.

The surveillance Boeing OC-135B aircraft was flying a mission over Siberia as allowed under the Treaty on Open Skies when it reported a problem with its landing gear.

The unarmed plane made an emergency landing at Khabarovsk airport, but a military source in Russia has questioned whether the technical glitch was genuine.

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Under the treaty, signatories are allowed to overfly the skies of each other gathering information about military forces and activities of concern to them.

The American military aircraft had left after a stopover in Ulan-Ude, in the Republic of Buryatia, and was due to fly north to Yakutsk, capital of Siberia's diamond-rich Sakha Republic.

Instead, after take-off the crew noticed the problem and the Boeing went east and made a landing 1,660 miles away in Khabarovsk.


An airport official confirmed Wednesday's emergency landing in the city, close to the Chinese border.

'A foreign aircraft made a forced landing in Khabarovsk. All emergency ground services have arrived on site. The flight landed safely at 3pm local time,' said a statement.

Earlier, the Russian Defence Ministry's Nuclear Risk Reduction Centre had announce the US Boeing OC-135B aircraft's observation flight over Russian territory between July 25 and 30.

An army source suggested the malfunctioning was 'not coincidental', and perhaps related to recent military exercises in the area.

'They were due to go direct from Ulan-Ude north-northeast to Yakutsk,' said the unnamed source, as reported by The Siberian Times.

'Just imagine the kind of loop they needed to make to request the landing at approximately the same distance, but to the east?'..

The Boeing OC-135B aircraft seats up to 35 people as it monitors foreign territory on behalf of the US government.

One vertical and two oblique KS-87E framing cameras are used for low-altitude photography approximately 900 metres above the ground, and one KA-91C panoramic camera, which scans from side to side to provide a wide sweep for each picture used for high-altitude photography at approximately 11,000 metres.

The Treaty on Open Skies was signed in March 1992 and was seen as a major confidence-building measure after the Cold War.

It entered into force on January 1, 2002.

Currently 34 states are party to the treaty, including Russia and most NATO members

It allows an unarmed aerial surveillance programme of flights over the entire territory of fellow participants.




: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ussia-problem-landing-gear.html#ixzz4FjgIqAlu

Maybe they were trying to make it to Japan for repairs...but didn't make it. They probably don't trust Russians with that plane.

 

[Penguin]

How exactly would making an emergency landing on a Russian airfield somehow be an intelligence gathering coup?

The OC-135B Open Skies United States Air Force observation aircraft supports the Treaty on Open Skies.The aircraft, a modified WC-135B, flies unarmed observation flights over participating parties of the treaty. Three OC-135B aircraft were modified by the Aeronautical Systems Center's 4950th Test Wing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. The first operationally-capable OC-135B was assigned to the 24th Reconnaissance Squadron at Offutt AFB in October 1993. It is now fitted with a basic set of navigational and sensor equipment, and was placed in inviolate storage at the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base near Tucson, Arizona in 1997. Two fully operational OC-135B aircraft were delivered in 1996 with the full complement of treaty-allowed sensors, which includes an infrared line scanner, synthetic aperture radar and video scanning sensors.

The interior seats 35 people, including the cockpit crew, aircraft maintenance crew, foreign country representatives and crew members from the U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_OC-135B_Open_Skies

The Treaty on Open Skies entered into force on January 1, 2002, and currently has 34 States Parties. It establishes a program of unarmed aerial surveillance flights over the entire territory of its participants. The treaty is designed to enhance mutual understanding and confidence by giving all participants, regardless of size, a direct role in gathering information about military forces and activities of concern to them. Open Skies is one of the most wide-ranging international efforts to date promoting openness and transparency of military forces and activities. The concept of "mutual aerial observation" was initially proposed to Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin at the Geneva Conference of 1955 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower; however, the Soviets promptly rejected the concept and it lay dormant for several years. The treaty was eventually signed as an initiative of US president (and former Director of Central Intelligence) George H. W. Bush in 1989. Negotiated by the then-members of NATO and the Warsaw Pact, the agreement was signed in Helsinki, Finland, on March 24, 1992.

This treaty is not related to civil-aviation open skies agreements.

The official certified U.S. Open Skies aircraft is the OC-135B Open Skies.
Canada uses a C-130 Hercules aircraft equipped with a "SAMSON" sensor pod to conduct flights over other treaty nations.
Bulgaria, Romania, Russia and Ukraine use the Antonov An-30 for their flights. The Czech Republic also used to use the An-30 for this purpose but they apparently retired all of theirs from service in 2003.
Russia also use a Tu-154M-ON Monitoring Aircraft. Germany formerly used this type as well until the aircraft was lost in a 1997 accident. Russia is phasing out both An-30 and Tu-154M-ON and replacing them with two Tu-214ON serial numbers RA-64519 and RA-64525.
Sweden uses a Saab 340 aircraft ("OS-100") that was certified in 2004.
Until 2008, UK designated aircraft was an Andover C.1(PR) aircraft, serial number XS596. Since then the UK has used a variety of aircraft including a Saab 340, An-30, and an OC-135.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_Open_Skies

In short, it is not a spy plane. BS story.

 

[Hamza913]

Since they didn't shoot it down, I have to agree with @Penguin

 

[Thorough Pro]

A problem with landing gear comes to knowledge either at take off or landing not hallway through the journey.