LONDON – A Scandinavian airliner carrying 132 passengers nearly crashed earlier this year into a Russian warplane that was flying covertly, a study of Russia-West military incidents said Monday.Swedish media reported that the two planes came within 90m of each other in the air some 80km southeast of the Swedish city of Malmo on March 3.”A collision was apparently avoided thanks only to good visibility and the alertness of the passenger-plane pilots,” the European Leadership Network (ELN) think-tank’s report said.The Scandinavian Airlines Boeing 737 was on its way from Copenhagen to Rome.The Russian reconnaissance plane “did not transmit its position”, …read more
Source: AsiaOne
