Airlines Scandinavian Airlines do not confirm. But the Swedish Defence Minister Peter Hultqvist confirmed Swedish public radio that the Russian military plane flew on Friday south of Malmoe with transponder turned off, which made him invisible for flight operations.
This is a very dangerous and should not happen – he added. Russia denies it was a military plane to crash into a passenger plane, but confirms its presence in the Copenhagen area.
The daily Dagens Nyheter writes that his findings show that it may be a flight number SK1755 on the road to Poznan.
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The Russian plane flew from off the transponder and watching him Danish and Swedish military radars. Russian machine hovered on the borders of the two countries, and thanks to their apparatus watched their territories. Denmark and Sweden sent to the area of operation of the Russians, fighter planes thus announcing that they were noticed. Russian plane then flew to the east. After some time, however, using a strong cloud returned to its former place.
At the same time, took off from the airport in Copenhagen plane SAS flying to Poznan. His flight was watching civilian air traffic control, also noted military control. Its operators are seeing the movement of both machines have found that they can collide because visibility in the area was very limited. Alarmed, the civil service, ordered the aircraft to passenger immediately turn going down the route of flight of the Russian machine. This occurred as claimed by Danish and Swedish sources – in the last minutes.
Russia’s Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konaszenkow assured that it was not possible to come to an impact. He explained that the distance between the Russian military aircraft and passenger aircraft’s flight path was safe and was more than 70 kilometers. Konaszenkow also confirmed that the Russian was flying machine without using a transponder.
He noted that the planes NATO , approaching the borders of Russia, also included flying without transponders. – This of course does not mean that we do not see – ended.
Previous similar incident threatening collision passenger aircraft of the Swedish and Russian military played out on the Baltic Sea on March 3 this year
SAS passenger plane escaped the collision with the Russian. Russia … – Dziennik.pl
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