DATE:
27/09/2006
Belarus authorities are planning to auction off the airplane confiscated from the two Lithuanian amateur pilots who violated Belarusian airspace earlier this summer. The German made, single motor CS-TW is valued at $85,000 (66,521 euros), but the starting price for the auction was $65,000. Due to a navigational error, the brother and sister team accidentally flew into Belarus airspace and were forced to land by fighter planes. The two were fined 1,450 euros each and held in a containment cell at a Belarus border-guard post. After being held for several days, they were deported from the country.
Source:
http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/16440/
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