” Federal Air Transport Agency ” prepares a diplomatic protest over Alliance flights. NATO has not yet responded to this incident.
Russia said that the Aeroflot liner with 142 passengers on board, flying from Tel Aviv to Moscow, changed echelon because of the plane -A NATO intelligence officer.
This was reported by the Air Force-Ukraine.
The incident took place on December 4. The Federal Air Transport Agency said that one of the two NATO reconnaissance aircraft Bombardier CL600 “chaotically” flew over the Black Sea and “dangerously approached the passenger flight of Aeroflot.” p>
Controllers gave the command to the civilian aircraft to descend 500 meters and take a safer flight.
Allegedly, the NATO aircraft crew did not respond to requests from Russian airspace services.
В Aeroflot added that at the time of the divergence, the crew of the passenger Airbus observed the Alliance aircraft visually.
At the same time, a Maltese passenger plane was to fly in the Black Sea region en route from Sochi to Skopje, North Macedonia. the route had to be changed too.
Rosaviatsia complains that the increasing intensity of NATO aircraft flights near the Russian borders “creates risks of dangerous incidents in relation to civilian ships.” Now Russian aviation The foreign ministry is preparing a diplomatic protest over the flights of the Alliance.
NATO has not yet responded to this incident.
Earlier it was reported that Russia raised fighters into the air because of American planes over the Black Sea.
