A US Navy P-8A Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft flew near the site of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline rupture in the Baltic Sea, hours after the first signs of damage appeared. Reuters writes about this with reference to data from the Radarbox service.

 The data show that the P-8A Poseidon was over the North Sea when Swedish seismologists registered an underwater explosion southeast of the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea.

 The plane, which took off from Iceland, made a regular flight over Poland for about an hour, and then went in the direction of the Baltic gas pipeline. The US Navy confirmed that it was their reconnaissance ship.

 "The US Navy P-8A Poseidon ... was conducting a routine maritime reconnaissance flight in the Baltic Sea unrelated to the Nord Stream pipeline leaks," US Navy Europe and Africa spokeswoman Capt. Tamara Lawrence told Reuters.

 She refused to specify whether the reconnaissance plane could have collected data that could help determine the circumstances of the explosions at the Nord Streams.