(News) "US actions created a threat to civil aviation": Moscow reacts to an Airbus change of course caused by a NATO plane

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The spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zajárova, pointed out that "the increase in flights of NATO aviation", near the Russian borders, "creates risks of dangerous incidents".

 

The spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, María Zajárova, spoke on Sunday about the incident that involved an Airbus А330-300 of the Russian airline Aeroflot, which this Friday was flying from Tel Aviv to Moscow and was forced to change its Heading because a NATO reconnaissance plane got in his way. Another passenger plane, a Maltese Bombardier CL650 flying from the Russian city of Sochi to Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, was also in the area.

The spokeswoman assured that "the actions of the US Air Force created a threat to civil aviation," and although this time "a catastrophe was avoided in the airspace over the international waters of the Black Sea, this did not it means the United States and NATO can continue to risk people's lives with impunity. "
Zajárova asserted that the increase in the intensity of NATO flights near the Russian borders, as well as over the Black Sea, "creates risks of dangerous incidents in relation to civil aircraft."

Likewise, the spokesperson cited the statement from the Federal Air Transport Agency that informs that the CL600 aircraft of the Alliance made a flight with an intense descent from an altitude of 11,000 to 9,200 meters, "crossing the route of the air traffic service established to civil aircraft "without responding to requests for air traffic services.

Due to their presence, "the courses and flight levels of civil aircraft were changed operationally. With the measures taken, the Russian air traffic controllers guaranteed the safe conduct of flights in the aforementioned area over the open waters of the Black Sea, "he concluded. The statement ensures that due to the risk posed by military flights without radio communications, the Russian aviation authorities will present "a protest through diplomatic channels."

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