The press service of Aeroflot’s airline explained the reason for changing the direction by the passenger aircraft in the Black Sea. It is reported by RIA Novosti.
As explained in the airline, the plane, which flees from Tel Aviv to Moscow really received a team about changing the echelon: first to FL 330, and then to FL 310. “The indication came from the ATC dispatcher and was due to the fact that The motion trajectory crossed another aircraft, “added there.
The incident occurred in the morning of December 4th. The US scout aircraft crossed the established civil aviation highways and approached the passenger airbus. On requests from the Earth, American pilots were not answered. Passenger plane, following the route Tel Aviv – Moscow, was forced to change the direction to avoid rapprochement with the US intelligence aircraft over the Black Sea.
later it became known that the evasion of a military aircraft moving towards the military aircraft had to be performed at an altitude of ten kilometers. After the US Air Force Scout ignored the signals from the passenger aircraft and from the ground control, the liner first lowered the height of the Polkilometer, and then rose to a kilometer.