The Russian cargo plane that arrived at the military airport in Pápa, Hungary, directly from Moscow last week, spent a total of five days in Hungary.
This article was originally published on our sister-site, Ungarn Heute.
The IL-76 arrived in Hungary last Wednesday via Poland and Slovakia. As Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó later revealed, the Volga-Dnepr Airlines plane was carrying a cargo of nuclear fuel for the Paks nuclear power plant.
The huge four-engine plane had been stationed at the NATO military transport base for the past five days and headed back to Moscow only early Monday afternoon.
The Ministry of Innovation and Technology (ITM), which is also responsible for issuing flight permits, said last week that the permits for the IL-76 were in order, as the transport was carried out “with the knowledge of the European Commission and with the approval and consent of the EU member states involved in the route.”
On Monday morning, government-critical portal 24.hu contacted the Ministry once again, trying to find out why the plane’s stay in Hungary had been so unusually long and why the plane landed at the NATO base in Pápa.
ITM has yet to reply to the site- we will update the article as soon as they do.
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