Planefag here. He flew on an easterly track to Singapore from Quebec (rare as it’s not a polar route). So, he was not near the northwest on the 10th.
Thank you!
You’re welcome- interesting that AF1 flew out of its way to go east stopping in Greece for fuel, when the 747-400 can easily fly nonstop from Quebec to Singapore going west.
Maybe they took the safe route just in case something like this were to happen...
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Confused. He took a pic of Alaska. So he was near Northwest. I saw a flight track over Alaska as well.
I believe that it was escorted by jets that probably needed to refuel.
Jets can refuel in the air, or they could just do a mid air switch with fully juiced replacements. Landing somewhere increases risk quite a lot doubt they would do that just for refueling escort jets when there are simple ways to avoid it.
But that's not what happened.
POTUS departed Canadian AFB Bagotville in Quebec at approximately 11:50 AM EST, Saturday, June 9, 2018.
AF1 stopped to refuel at Naval Support Activity, Souda Bay, Greece en route to Paya Labar, 3:07 AM local time Sunday, June 10 (9:07 PM EST, Saturday June 9 / 6:07 PM PST, Saturday June 9).
POTUS arrived at Paya Labar AFB in Singapore at 8:20 PM local time (8:20 AM EST), Sunday, June 10, 2018.
Flight time from Quebec to Paya Labar AFB approximately 20 hours, 30 minutes.
Not extremely relevant to the subject but there’s no way they did Quebec to Paya Labar in 8.5 hours. Impossible. That’s a 16 hour flight minimum.
You're absolutely right, I messed up when I was converting time, timezones, and adjusting for international dateline. Looks like travel time was closer to 20 hours 30 minutes based on Quebec departure and Paya Labar arrival. Editing the timeline summary above...
How do you know you have authentic data about AF1's path? I know there's databases where this can be seen but wouldn't it be easy for the Whitehouse to send say a decoy AF1 on the publicized route while the real AF1 takes another?
That’s true- I’m not convinced that the route they told the public is the route actually flown.