Regarding IJM's Dassault Falcon 900EX (VP-CVS) from GVA arrived YZF Mar 1 11:59.
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Pilots, owner of plane that brought Russian to Yellowknife fined
by Ethan Butterfield
Northern News Services Limited 2022.03.04
Transport Canada said Friday, March 4 that the plane, which was grounded once authorities at the airport discovered a Russian had arrived on board, would be allowed to leave,
but not with its passenger.
The aircraft was operating in Canadian airspace in contravention of an order issued Feb. 27.
The Russian national aboard and both pilots were fined $3,000 apiece. The company that owns the plane, Swiss-based Dunard Engineering, was fined $15,000.
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Fines levied against those involved with Russian-controlled plane grounded in Yellowknife
Charter flight violated Canadian airspace restrictions, Transport Canada says
CBC News 2022.03.04
Sau Sau Liu, a senior communications advisor with Transport Canada, said in an email that the federal agency investigated the flight. Though the aircraft is not Russian-owned or registered, Transport Canada found it broke new airspace restrictions that were announced Feb. 27 in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Those restrictions closed Canada's airspace to any Russian-owned, operated or chartered aircraft.
Liu said Transport Canada is allowing the aircraft in question to operate in Canadian airspace so it can leave Yellowknife,
but it can't have any passengers on board.
News of the flight broke Wednesday when the N.W.T.'s infrastructure minister, Diane Archie, told the Legislative Assembly the passengers had been en route to Resolute, Nunavut, as part of an Arctic expedition in a "large all-terrain utility vehicle."
As first reported by Cabin Radio on Wednesday, the expedition to the Arctic is likely the
TransGlobal Car Expedition, where a team is attempting to cross every continent by vehicle.
The team includes Vasily Shakhnovsky, a Russian former oil and gas executive once reported by Forbes to have wealth well in excess of $1 billion, and Vasily Elagin, a Russian mountaineer and explorer.
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A) Fines seem inconsequential.
B) What of the passenger prevented from leaving with the aircraft ...
Edit: Flight History: VP-CVS. From YZF (ATD 2022.03.04 13:24) To GVA (STA 06:00)