The US Air Force the night before the accident on the Nord Stream Gas Pipelines and Nord Stream 2 ran above where the highways lay. This is according to the data of the flight tracking portal Flightradar.
According to the source, around the ninth hour, from approximately 19:30 Moscow time on Sunday, September 25 to 04:30 Moscow time on Monday, September 26, it was in the air multipurpose helicopter US Air Force Sikorsky MH-60R Strike Hawk.
Such helicopters are used by the US military for reconnaissance and surveillance, communication relay, support of naval operations, including combat against surface and underwater targets. The plane was flying about 250 kilometers from the island of Bornholm, in the area of which there was a gas leak from the Nord Stream gas pipeline.