Australian pilots helped detect pirated Russian tanker
10:08, 7 May 2010
WASHINGTON. May 7. KAZINFORM An Australian P3 patrol aircraft assisted in the safe rescue of a pirated Russian vessel in the Gulf of Aden on Thursday, the Bahrain-based Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) said; Kazinform refers to Itar-Tass.
The aircraft was dispatched to locate MV Moscow University, a Liberian-flagged, Russian-owned 240-meter crude oil tanker that came under pirate attack on Wednesday.
After locating the vessel and sharing its position with the Russian Marshal Shaposhnikov warship, the tanker was subsequently boarded by a Russian team and the suspected pirates were apprehended with no injuries sustained by the 23-member crew, the CMF said; Kazinform cites Itar-Tass.