Foreign media said that after the explosion of the "North Stream" pipeline, the US reconnaissance plane appeared in the nearby waters many times

　　Xinhua News Agency, London, October 8 (Xinhua) According to a Reuters report on the 7th, citing a flight track provided by a professional flight tracking website, a US Navy reconnaissance aircraft repeatedly flew near the scene within hours of the "North Stream" natural gas pipeline leak. fly over.

　　Reuters outlined the trajectory of the U.S. military reconnaissance plane based on an incomplete circuit map provided by the U.S. flight tracking website "Radar Box" and data from the Swedish "Flying Radar 24" website.

　　The flight data shows that at 0:03 GMT on September 26, that is, the Swedish measuring station detected the first occurrence in the sea area where the "Nord Stream-1" and "North Stream-2" pipelines are located to the south of Bornholm Island, Denmark. The U.S. P-8A "Poseidon" maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft was over the North Sea when the underwater explosion occurred.

　　After 1:00 GMT, the military plane flew from the south of Bornholm Island to northwestern Poland. It flew around for about an hour and flew over the sea where the spill occurred at about 2:44, which was the closest to the accident scene. About 24 kilometers, after a circling flight, it flew to the direction of Kaliningrad, Russia's "enclave" on the Baltic coast.

　　Flight data for the military plane was missing between 3:39 and 6:20 GMT, but data around 7:00 showed it was on its way back, most recently about 4km north of the accident site, and finally back to Kef in southwest Iceland Ravik Air Base.

　　According to Reuters, the U.S. Navy Europe-Africa Command claimed that the military aircraft was performing a routine reconnaissance flight in the airspace over the Baltic Sea and had nothing to do with the Nord Stream accident.

　　On September 26, the Swedish measuring station detected two strong underwater explosions in the sea area where the "Nord Stream-1" and "North Stream-2" pipelines leaked.

The Swedish Prosecutor's Office announced on October 3 that it had launched a criminal investigation.

At present, a total of 4 leaks have been found on the "North Stream-1" and "North Stream-2" pipelines, which are located in the waters near Sweden and Denmark, respectively.

　　Russia considers the sabotage of the two pipelines to be an incident of international terrorism.

　　The "North Stream-1" pipeline was completed in 2011, starting from Vyborg, Russia in the east, and leading to Germany via the bottom of the Baltic Sea.

The "Beixi-2" pipeline was completed last year and is basically parallel to the "Beixi-1" pipeline. It has not yet been put into use, but some natural gas is still sealed in the pipeline.