Teen famous for tracking Elon Musk’s jet now monitoring private air travel of Russian oligarchs

According to the Jet Traveler Report 2018, more than one in three private jet owners are worth more than $500 million.

Jack Sweeney, a 19-year-old who first made headlines for tracking Elon Musk’s private jet, is now monitoring the air travel of Russia’s elite, Business Insider reports.

According to the report, Sweeney tracks the whereabouts of more than 20 aircraft registered to Russian VIPs, including the country’s president Vladimir Putin.

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According to Insider, “Russian billionaires are still crisscrossing the globe on private jets and yachts despite the sanctions, which are meant to financially cripple Russia’s elite in retaliation for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”

Sweeney created an automated Twitter account sharing the locations of Russian oligarchs’ private jets amid the new sanctions.

The new account, called Russian Oligarch Jets, has already amassed a following of more than 340,000.


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