A Moscow-Yekaterinburg flight operated by Russia’s largest budget airline, Pobeda (a subsidiary of Aeroflot), made a number of diversions, tracing out a phallic shape in its flight path. It was suggested that the stunt was performed by the pilots in solidarity with the captain of the Russian national football team, who was dismissed following an alleged sex tape scandal. A deputy director at the airline was sacked in connection with the incident.