Possible Tate Brothers’ Flight to US Tracked by Thousands
February 27, 2025
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Sophie Grace Clark is a Live News reporter based in London. Her focus is reporting on U.S. politics and society. She has covered politics and entertainment extensively. Sophie joined Newsweek in 2024 from a freelance career and had previously worked at The Mail on Sunday, The Daily Star, OK Magazine, and MyLondon. She is a graduate of Middlebury College. You can get in touch with Sophie by emailing sg.clark@newsweek.com. Languages: English.
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Thousands of people are tracking the flight of a private plane suspected to be carrying brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate from Romania back to the U.S.
The Gulfstream G550 jet, which took off from Romania, was the most-watched flight on FlightTracker, an open-source site used to follow commercial and private planes, early on Thursday, with more than 3,000 users following its route at the time of publication.
Self-described “misogynists” Andrew and Tristan Tate were detained in December 2022 in Bucharest and charged in 2023 with human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women. They deny all charges.
The American citizens have been under travel restrictions. It is not clear under what conditions the Tates were allowed to leave Romania.
The brothers left Baneasa airport in Romanian capital Bucharest shortly after 5 a.m. local time this morning, the BBC reported.
Aviation journalist Josh Cahill wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Thursday that he was “99% sure” the plane being heavily tracked is carrying the two brothers.
“The flight path also suggest that it is headed for Florida. No other private jet has departed Romania today,” he wrote.
Andrew Tate (L) and Tristan Tate (R) walk from the Bucharest’s Court of Appeal after a hearing about their demand to be allowed to leave Romania as their mother allegedly suffered a heart attack, in… Andrew Tate (L) and Tristan Tate (R) walk from the Bucharest’s Court of Appeal after a hearing about their demand to be allowed to leave Romania as their mother allegedly suffered a heart attack, in Bucharest, on December 22, 2023.
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