A civilian plane flying from Tel Aviv to Moscow was forced to change course over the Black Sea due to a NATO reconnaissance aircraft. In connection with the incident, the Russian authorities are initiating a protest through diplomatic channels, the Federal Air Transport Agency told reporters.
“On the morning of December 03 at 09:53 Moscow time, over the open waters of the Black Sea, near the area of responsibility of the Russian air traffic services, the NATO CL600 reconnaissance aircraft flew with an intensive descent from an altitude of 11000 to an altitude of 9200 meters, crossing the route established for civil aircraft The crew of the reconnaissance aircraft did not respond to repeated inquiries from the air traffic services, “- quotes the message of the Federal Air Transport Agency” Interfax “.
The same area was crossed by the routes of flights of two civil aircraft – Aeroflot A333, which was flying from Tel Aviv to Moscow, and CL650, which was flying from Sochi to Skopje (North Macedonia). flights of civil aircraft “.
“The increased intensity of NATO aircraft flights near the borders of the Russian Federation, including over the Black Sea, creates the risk of dangerous incidents in relation to civil aircraft. Considering that the above-mentioned flights of military aircraft without radio communication pose risks to the safety of civil aircraft in the Black Sea , the Russian aviation authorities will initiate the direction of the protest through diplomatic channels, “the Federal Air Transport Agency concluded.
The incident with the intersection of the trajectories of aircraft in the sky was previously recorded by the Flightradar24 and Radarbox portals, which track flights in real time. According to them, the US reconnaissance plane took off from a base on the island of Crete.
Earlier in the day, it became known that Russian Su-27 and Su-30 fighters had to escort a strategic reconnaissance aircraft of the US Air Force, as well as a reconnaissance and target designation aircraft of the US ground forces over the Black Sea. They have been spotted in the neutral waters of the Black Sea.
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