The plane carrying Julian Assange, who according to the Wikileaks whistleblowing publisher he founded has been released from British custody, took off for the Western Pacific on Tuesday evening after a stopover of several hours in Bangkok.
The Bombardier charter plane is flying from Thailand's capital to the island of Saipan, which belongs to the Northern Mariana Islands and is a foreign territory of the United States.
The aircraft is expected to arrive early Wednesday morning.
On the flightradar24 flight-tracking platform, flight number VJT199, which Assange's wife Stella and Wikileaks had previously mentioned on social media, was the connection most monitored by users worldwide.
The Australian is due to appear in court in the US territory on Wednesday. Assange is expected to plead guilty at the court hearing to conspiracy to unlawfully obtain and distribute classified documents as part of a deal with the US justice system and be sentenced to more than five years in prison.
The sentence corresponds to the length of time the whistleblower has already spent in a high-security prison in London.
The 52-year-old is then expected to travel on to his homeland in Australia.
Washington accuses Assange of stealing and publishing secret material from military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan - thereby jeopardizing the lives of US citizens - with the whistleblower Chlesea Manning.
