The London-based European Leadership Network released a report today on the “dangerous brinkmanship” between Russia and the West, one instance of which could have resulted in a passenger plane crash. The report collates 40 incidents over the past eight months, the most alarming of which was a near-collision in March between a Russian military aircraft and a Scandinavian Airlines plane carrying 132 passengers. The Russian plane wasn’t transmitting its position at the time and a potential disaster “was apparently avoided thanks only to good visibility and the alertness of the passenger plane pilots.” Swedish television reported two months later that …read more
Source: Business Insider
