According to the Russian civil aviation agency, the incident occurred last Friday when the spy plane “descended rapidly”, crossing the route established by an Airbus of the Aeroflot company that covered the route between Tel Aviv and Moscow with 142 people on board.
As a result, “the direction and altitude of the commercial flight were changed immediately,” the agency said in a statement, the AFP news agency reported.
The note added that the spy plane’s crew did not respond to messages from air traffic controllers.
According to the Russian news agency Interfax, the Russian plane descended 500 meters to get away from the reconnaissance plane.
A private jet flying from the Russian city of Sochi, on the Dead Sea, to Skopje, in the Republic of Macedonia, also changed course because of the spy plane, according to the aviation agency.
“The growing activity of NATO aircraft flights near the borders of Russia causes a risk of dangerous incidents with civilian aircraft,” denounced the agency, warning that it plans to “protest” through diplomatic channels.
The spy plane’s nationality was not specified, but Zajarova in his statement accused the US air force of “representing a risk to civil aviation.”
Neither NATO nor the United States reacted to those accusations for the time being.
The incident took place in a context of tension between Russia and Western countries, who accuse the Russian Government of concentrating troops on the borders of Ukraine, with a view to an invasion, something that Moscow denies.
Source From: Ambito
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