The Boeing E-6B Mercury, also known as the US Navy's 'Doomsday Plane,' recently carried out a covert transatlantic mission that ended with the aircraft simply disappearing from public tracking systems.
According to flight tracking data, the plane took off from Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland, flew southeast over the Chesapeake Bay, passed the naval complex near Norfolk, then ventured out over the Atlantic. Roughly 60 miles east of the Virginia Capes, its transponder was switched off, which is a standard procedure for classified operations.
