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    Gotcha! What’s on the clandestine nightly flights between Myanmar and China?

    Each night for more than a week, unregistered flights between Yangon and Kunming have been transporting unknown goods and personnel from China to Myanmar. The military regime that’s now in charge of Myanmar is trying very hard to hide the flights. The Chinese government and Myanmar Airways have claimed the planes were carrying seafood exports. However, the details of the flights in question make that highly unlikely.

    When the Myanmar military, the Tatmadaw, took over the country, it banned international flights. Very few flights are now using Yangon airport, and even fewer are flying internationally. But averaging five flights a night, up to three planes have been making trips to Kunming in southern China. Two of the planes are painted with Myanmar Airways colours and the other is unmarked. All of them are leased from private firms, so they should be in good working order.

    Whoever has arranged these flights is going to great lengths to hide them. The planes’ transponders have been turned off, a violation of international aviation rules. We know the transponders work because we can see that they have been turned off for specific flights and then turned on for others. Beyond that, the Kunming Airport hasn’t registered them online as arrivals. Flight data is often missing from international flight databases, including flight numbers, call signs and even destinations. The failure to include scheduled departure and arrival times, as opposed to the actual times, makes it particularly difficult to track them on open-source flight databases.

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    https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/wh...mar-and-china/

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    But we do have the information sent via satellite from the engines (akin to what was used to investigate the fate of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370)

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    I thought that you would at least get one reply on this intriguing story.....

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    Something might come up

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    You did have a reply, but you've both �� him.
    Would be interesting to know whats on these flights. The US gov used to do this all the time. Can't say firsthand if it still does.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KevinD View Post
    You did have a reply, but you've both �� him.
    Would be interesting to know whats on these flights. The US gov used to do this all the time. Can't say firsthand if it still does.
    The Vietnam war era???

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    Quote Originally Posted by KevinD View Post
    Would be interesting to know whats on these flights. The US gov used to do this all the time. Can't say firsthand if it still does.
    It would be very interesting. It's a lot of flights.

    You did have a reply, but you've both �� him.
    Yes, that's unfortunate

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Monk View Post
    The Vietnam war era???
    Ah, no, well into the late 80s

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    Quote Originally Posted by lost in melb. View Post
    Yes, that's unfortunate
    when ya have no problem dishing it out but cant take it and must mute

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