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EXCLUSI= VE U.S. Navy jet flew across Baltic hours after Nord Stream burst

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Gas leak at Nord Stream 2 as seen from t= he Danish F-16 interceptor on Bornholm, Denmark September 27, 2022. Danish = Defence Command/Forsvaret Ritzau Scanpix/via REUTERS

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Tracking data shows jet flew near= site of Nord Stream 2 hours after first damage
U.S. navy confirmed it was an American aircraft
Says flight was routine

OSLO/PAR= IS/WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - A U.S. Navy reconnaissance aircraft flew n= ear the site of the ruptured Nord Stream 2 pipeline in the Baltic Sea hours= after the first damage emerged, according to tracking reviewed by Reuters,= a flight Washington said was routine.

Russia's Nord Stream 1 and 2 = pipelines burst on Sept. 26, draining gas into the Ba= ltic Sea off the coast of Denmark and Sweden. Seismologists registered expl= osions in the area, and police in several countries have launched investiga= tions.

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Flight data showed a P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol and reconnaissance = plane was over the North Sea at 0003 GMT when Swedish seismologists registe= red what they later described as a subsea blast southeast of Bornholm Islan= d in the Baltic Sea.

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The plane, which ha= d flown from Iceland, performed a pattern of regular racetrack-shaped circu= its over Poland before breaking away towards the Baltic pipeline area, data= showed.

The identity of t= he plane could not immediately be established because of the type of rotati= ng identification code sometimes used by such planes, but the U.S. Navy con= firmed it was an American aircraft when presented with data by Reuters.

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"The U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon aircraft shown in the track= ing data conducted a routine Baltic Sea maritime reconnaissance flight, unr= elated to the leaks from the Nord Stream pipelines," a U.S. Navy spokespers= on said.

Asked if any of the intelligence gathered might help invest= igators looking into the pipeline ruptures, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa= spokesperson, Capt. Tamara Lawrence said: "We do not have any additional i= nformation to provide at this time."

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It's unclear what role, if any, the U.S.= military is playing to aid European investigations into the ruptures of th= e pipelines, although President Joe Biden has spoken about eventually sendi= ng down divers.

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According to the data, several minutes past 0100 GMT the plane f= lew south of Bornholm heading to northwestern Poland, where it circled for = about an hour above land before flying at around 0244 GMT to the area where= the gas leak was reported.

It came as close as some 24 kms (15 mile= s) to the reported leak site, circled once and flew towards the Russian exc= lave of Kaliningrad, a frequent focus for surveillance, analysts say.

Polish, Swedish, Danish and German ministries of defence were not immedi= ately available for comment.

There is flight data missing between 0= 339 GMT and 0620 GMT, but on its way back, around 0700 GMT, the plane flew = some 4 kms north of the reported leak site.

Reuters used a partial = flight map from U.S.-based tracking website Radarbox complemented by data p= rovided to Reuters by Sweden-based Flightradar24 to reconstruct the P-8's p= ath.

Flightradar24 data showed the plane taking off and landing at = Reykjanes peninsula in southwestern Iceland, where Keflavik Air Base is loc= ated along with reported P-8 hangar facilities.

The data emerged as= the Baltic remains a front for Cold War-style tensions in the aftermath of= Russia's invasion of Ukraine, according to analysts who caution it is impo= ssible to establish with certainty the reason behind specific military flig= ht paths.

"The Baltic is a very active sphere of confrontation with= lots of probing and an endless chess game," said UK-based defence analyst = Francis Tusa.

Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Th= ursday the pipeline burst was "most likely" the work of Russian special ser= vices, citing information from Western allies.

Western governments = and officials have so far avoided pointing a finger directly at Moscow, = while Russia has rejected any allegations of responsibility as "stupid", bl= aming the United States and its allies instead.

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