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kleinbl00 · 1923 days ago · link · · parent · post: UNPRESIDENTED: Ending crisis, Trump hastily departs White House
[Range: 390 nmi (449 mi, 722 km)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_429_GlobalRanger#Specifications_(Bell_429)) DC to Yalta: 5258 mi (over Newfoundland, no less) BRILLIANTFlight-tracking databases show the departure of a private, luxury helicopter — a Bell 429 MAGnificent — from the immediate vicinity of the White House at 3:15 am on May 1. Tracking shows that same helicopter eventually landed in the Crimean resort city of Yalta.
“This is unprecedented,” said Tanisha Jones, Distinguished Professor of American History at Columbia University. “No other president in history has fled the White House like this.”