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What’s up with flights
Fox news ^ | 6-19-2025 | Andrew Mark amiller

Posted on 06/19/2025 3:29:48 PM PDT by Pete Dovgan

Several Boeing 747s have been spotted on radar leaving China for Iran over the last week, according to reports, sparking concerns that the CCP is helping the Middle Eastern nation transport cargo or people out of the country as Israel continues to strike the country’s nuclear facilities.

Starting on June 14th, FlightRadar24 shows that at least five flights traveled from China to Iran, and The Telegraph reported that the "mystery transport planes" had flown westward along northern China before crossing into Kazakhstan, south through Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, and then fell off radar as they approached Iran.

Additionally, the report indicated that the flights had a final destination of Luxembourg but don’t appear to have ever crossed into European airspace.

Some experts have speculated that these types of planes are typically used for transport and could be evidence of China aiding its longtime ally Iran during the conflict with Israel, although Fox News Digital has not independently confirmed the nature of the flights.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: 202506; 20250614; 747s; airfreight; cargoplanes; china
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What’s up. Rumors of Chinese coup, and now flights to Iran
1 posted on 06/19/2025 3:29:48 PM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: Pete Dovgan

the CHICOMS need Iran’s oil. not surprising.


2 posted on 06/19/2025 3:31:13 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: Pete Dovgan

They are getting all the Persian rugs out for sale on Temu.


3 posted on 06/19/2025 3:33:27 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: Pete Dovgan

Anyone remember the sudden appearance of Russian columns transporting stuff from Iraq into Syria?


4 posted on 06/19/2025 3:37:53 PM PDT by fso301
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To: fso301

The rulers are leaving and taking everything not nailed down.

In other words, looting.


5 posted on 06/19/2025 3:39:07 PM PDT by DarrellZero
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To: Pete Dovgan

I think the real news here is that Luxembourg has an airport.


6 posted on 06/19/2025 3:41:28 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: dadfly
the CHICOMS need Iran’s oil. not surprising.

Yep. CCP's Belt & Roads Initiative.


7 posted on 06/19/2025 3:42:04 PM PDT by MacNaughton
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To: DarrellZero

Israel needs to have some accidents with these planes. Mistakes happen in war, they can apologize the Chinese.


8 posted on 06/19/2025 3:42:44 PM PDT by jonathan-swift2000 (gaza)
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To: Pete Dovgan

It could be a counter-stealth radar system with the purpose being a test of its effectiveness against low-observable targets.


9 posted on 06/19/2025 3:43:50 PM PDT by Chad_the_Impaler
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To: Pete Dovgan
and then fell off radar as they approached Iran.

These trackers are probably reporting transponder information rather that the primary radar returns, so the Chinese pilots are turning off their transponders when they get close to Iran.

10 posted on 06/19/2025 3:48:25 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (I refuse to call the left "progressive" because I do not see slavery to the government as progress.)
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To: dadfly

Rescue them ccp engineers.


11 posted on 06/19/2025 3:49:56 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: Pete Dovgan

Chicoms have a lot of people in Iran helping them.

Get the ones still alive out.

Bring what they can to help Mullahs attack US and Israel.


12 posted on 06/19/2025 3:53:26 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: SpaceBar

Actually a very famous airport. Icelandic Airlines flew from JFK to Iceland and then to Luxembourg at fares 50-60% less than the common carriers. Luxembourg did not participate with the international agreements that regulated fares, level of service etc. Millions of college students flew into Luxembourg in the 1960s.


13 posted on 06/19/2025 4:01:08 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: Pete Dovgan

A Chinese coup?


14 posted on 06/19/2025 4:03:27 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: KarlInOhio; All

“FlightRadar24” and similar websites like “FlightAware” use “ADS-B” data not radar or transponder data (transponder data/interrogation is a subset of radar signals). The military routinely turns off their ADS-B if on a mission (and if equipped, a lot of military aircraft are not equipped with ADS-B yet). Chinese civilian 747’s could turn off their ADS-B, but the FAA in US airspace doesn’t like that.

https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/most-wanted-receiver-locations/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Dependent_Surveillance–Broadcast


15 posted on 06/19/2025 4:05:01 PM PDT by Drago
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To: Pete Dovgan

My guess is re-arming Iran with North Korean drones.


16 posted on 06/19/2025 4:11:02 PM PDT by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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To: Pete Dovgan

They’re getting their people out just in case Trump has to end this thing in Trump fashion.


17 posted on 06/19/2025 4:12:52 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: fso301

I do. Believed to have been their weapons of mass destruction.


18 posted on 06/19/2025 5:51:47 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Pete Dovgan

I thought the first reports were that the chicom aircraft were cargo planes, so air defense systems made sense. Since they can’t pack air defense systems in 747s, the million $$ question:

Absent capitulation or a coup, what is the one thing Iran needs to turn this conflict on its head?

The answer could be very quickly finalized with personnel & equipment ferried aboard those aircraft.

[tin hat off]


19 posted on 06/19/2025 6:12:21 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: logi_cal869

Israel should close all Iranian airspace.


20 posted on 06/19/2025 6:16:52 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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