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Henry Jones (PA) & Steven Smith

Plane draws 'relax' with its flight path near Ukraine border

A passenger plane has written "relax" with its flight path near Ukraine's border.

Amid heightened tensions with Russia, an Air Moldova plane drew an 80-mile wide version of the word using its flight path on Thursday afternoon, data courtesy of Flightradar24.com showed.

The plane, a 23-year-old Airbus A321 using "Relax" as its call sign, departed from Chisinau, the capital of Moldova, for a one-hour 40-minute flight before landing back at the same airport.

It flew at an altitude of 10,000 feet, at times just 25 miles from the country's border with Ukraine.

More than 30,000 users were tracking the flight at one point, according to Flightradar24.com.

Screengrab taken from Flightradar24.com of the flight path of an Air Moldova passenger which drew an 80 mile wide 'relax' near Ukraine's border on Thursday afternoon (Flightradar24.com /PA Wire)

The PA news agency has contacted Air Moldova for comment but it had not responded at the time of publication.

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