Russian freight company Volga Dnepr has launched an unusual legal fight to reclaim one of its An-124 cargo planes from Canada and legal experts say it might just work. The aircraft was flown to Toronto from Anchorage loaded with COVID pandemic supplies the night Russia invaded Ukraine. Canada closed its airspace to Russian aircraft and the huge aircraft has been parked on the ramp at Pearson International Airport ever since. Earlier this year, Canada promised to sieze the plane and donate it to Ukraine but the transfer hasn’t yet occurred. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is reporting Volga-Dnepr may have found a trade agreement that will further complicate that process at the very least.
Dafuq?
I’m kinda ok with the impoundment, the “you can’t fly in our airspace because your government invaded another country” is slightly sketchy but not completely indefensible.
Transferring ownership to Ukraine is a little too much though… Its essentially a civil asset forfeiture and that shit in general needs to stop being a fucking thing.