Last month, young Jack Sweeney became famous for the repercussion of one of his Twitter accounts, through which he monitors and publicizes every flight of billionaire Elon Musk’s jet. Now, the 19-year-old has turned his talents to a new subject: Russian oligarchs.
For this, he created a new account, called Russian Oligarch Jets, and began tracking the whereabouts of some of Russia’s wealthiest executives, posting when and where their aircraft take off and land. The automated feed posted its first tweet on Sunday and already has 146,000 followers.
Sweeney created the account at a time when many of these oligarchs have been added to sanctions lists put in place in response to Russian aggression in Ukraine last week. In recent days, the jets and helicopters began to be repositioned to neutral countries, to avoid being seized – and everything started to be shown in the boy’s account.
The Oligarch Jets account has already tracked several flights by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich’s aircraft, including a voyage by the Gulfsteam G650 on the morning of March 1. Dozens of jets are being monitored by the boy.
He didn’t stop there, but created another account, named Russian VIP & Putin Jets to track flights on planes registered to Putin and Russian government VIPs, although Sweeney has alerted not to expect it to be too accurate because there were a lot of planes and not as much flight data available in Russia as elsewhere.
The latest trace of this account involved a flight of an Ilyushin IL-96 on Russian government service, which landed in Moscow six hours ago.
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