Le Bourget - A Russian jet fighter caught up in a court battle between Russia and a Swiss company took off from the Paris Air Show yesterday after bailiffs threatened to impound it, witnesses said. A correspondent at the air show said the air superiority Su-30MK fighter had streaked into the sky shortly before 3.30 p.m. It was not clear where the aircraft was headed.
Earlier, a French lawyer for Swiss import-export company Noga said bailiffs trying to recover alleged debts from Moscow had acquired a court injunction to impound the Sukhoi as well as a MiG training and ground attack plane and ordered the control tower to forbid them from taking off.
But Russian news agency reports from Paris said the planes had not been impounded and were beyond the reach of bailiffs.