DHAKA: Two small sports aircraft were stolen from Tyumen Oblast in Siberia, Russia.
The country’s TASS news agency said, reports The Straits Times.
The first plane, a Yak-52, was forced to land due to technical problems at an airport in the city of Yalutorovsk.
The culprit then took a second plane from the same airfield, a Gardan GY-80-160, and took an accomplice, TASS quoted a source as saying.
The second plane is unaccounted for, it added.
BDST: 1620 HRS, JUN 21, 2015
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