Moscow has said that a U.S. airplane threatened civilian airplane however “catastrophe” was prevented when a Russian traveler plane dived to avoid the NATO reconnaissance aircraft that crossed its path over the Black Sea.
On Friday morning a NATO CL600 reconnaissance airplane descended quickly throughout the planned route for a Tel Aviv to Moscow Aeroflot solution with 142 people aboard, Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency claimed in a statement.
The Aeroflot flight apparently had to drop 500 meters (1,600 feet) to maintain its range from the reconnaissance airplane, which the pilots saw from the cabin with the nude eye.
A 2nd airplane, a smaller CL650 airplane, flying from the Black Sea hotel Sochi to Skopje, the funding of Northern Macedonia, additionally had to divert to prevent the spy aircraft, the Russian air transportation authority stated Saturday.
” The direction and also altitude of the commercial flights were instantly altered” to avoid a crash, the company claimed, including that the unidentified aircraft did not reply to radio comes from air traffic control.
While the Federal Air Transport Agency did not say which country had actually operated the spy plane, Russian international ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova suggested on Sunday that the reconnaissance aircraft came from the United States.
” The actions of the U.S. Air Force have developed a threat to civil air travel,” Zakharova stated on messaging application Telegram.
” If currently a catastrophe in the airspace over the open waters of the Black Sea has actually been avoided, this does not indicate that the United States as well as NATO can continue to run the risk of people’s lives with immunity.”
The Federal Air Transport Agency claimed it would certainly lodge a diplomatic protest.
” Increased activity by NATO airplane near Russia’s boundaries, consisting of over the Black Sea, develops a risk of hazardous crashes involving noncombatant airplane,” the company claimed.
The occurrence came as stress climb in between Russia and Western countries, which implicate Moscow of massing troops on its border with Ukraine in preparation for a possible intrusion.
Russia has rejected it has any such strategies, in turn accusing NATO countries of “provocations” consisting of armed forces exercises near its boundaries.