FlightRadar24 has the recorded track of his flight, FAB1, here: <a href="http://www.flightradar24.com/#!/2013-07-02/16:35/FAB1" rel="nofollow">http://www.flightradar24.com/#!/2013-07-02/16:35/FAB1</a><p>The odd thing about the claim that Snowden was aboard is that FAB1 took off from Vnukovo but Snowden is apparently in Sheremetyevo.<p>Here's a picture of plane turning round over Austria and then descending and landing in Vienna: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/cuUQkWV.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/cuUQkWV.jpg</a><p>UPDATE: News reports say that FAB1 is leaving VIE shortly and it is now appearing on FlightRadar24's live view.
Now we know what will happen to Snowden if he is granted asylum by a country that can only be reached by flight.<p>The flight permits will be rescinded, the plane forced to land and subjected to a search, and if Snowden is present I suspect he will be arrested and extradited to the USA on the basis that the asylum is invalid on the grounds that it was not granted in the destination country.<p>Russia really is his best chance.<p>Edit: Which makes me wonder, did Bolivia help spread this rumour (on behalf of Ecuador or Venezuela) to test what would happen
Guardian is doing pretty good live reporting on this fascinating story:
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/03/edward-snowden-asylum-live" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/03/edward-snowden-a...</a>
A funny comment I picked up from Reddit:<p>> "Bolivia should cut all cocaine exports to the US, and push Colombia to do the same, within a week you would see all US politicians panicking and killing each others trying to check first into rehab"
AP is now reporting that France didn't block the plane: <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_NSA_SURVEILLANCE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-07-03-06-11-50" rel="nofollow">http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_NSA_SURVEILLANCE?S...</a>
Why are there no news reporters just "traveling" the same airport as Snowden, Reporting on the situation and taking new pics. I can't be that easy to hide in an airport, and it can't be that hard to wander around an international airport for awhile when waiting for a long layover... something about the reason we haven't had any of that kind of reporting smells pretty fishy to me... also, how many CIA agents do you think have "traveled" through that airport in the past few days, keeping tabs on things...?
It's sad to see that France and Portugal go this way. No one should support the government of the United Shit of America, especially when you know they are spying on you.
Question: Wouldn't it be super easy to check a private plane for how many passengers are on board? Just watching the passengers board with a thermographic camera should do the trick.
That tells a lot about all these European countries that are just puppets of the US government,especially France where I come from... Maybe we should stop the hypocrisy and let Washington govern us directly, we could save a lot of money this way.