The Federal Air Transport Agency does not comment on information that appeared in the media that a passenger airliner en route from Tel Aviv to Moscow was forced to change course due to the risk of a rapprochement with an American reconnaissance aircraft. This was announced on December 4 by a representative of the department.
“We do not comment,” she is quoted as saying “RIA News”…
Earlier that day, a civilian plane flying from Tel Aviv to Moscow was forced to change course over the Black Sea in order to avoid a dangerous rapprochement with a foreign reconnaissance aircraft. It was noted that the reconnaissance aircraft randomly crossed the established civil aviation routes and approached the passenger Airbus.
The vertical distance between the planes was less than 20 m. The controllers gave the command to the civil plane to descend 500 m and take a safer echelon. The intruder plane did not respond to inquiries from the ground.
A day earlier, it was reported that Russian airspace control over the neutral waters of the Black Sea detected air targets approaching the border of the Russian Federation. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Su-27 and Su-30 fighters were taken into the air to identify them and prevent violations of the Russian border. It was noted that the crews of Russian fighters identified the aerial targets as the US Air Force RC-135 strategic reconnaissance aircraft and the US Army CL-600 Artemis reconnaissance and targeting aircraft and escorted them over the Black Sea. Violations of the border of the Russian Federation were not allowed, the ministry stressed.
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