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Report reveals civil airplane and Russian reconnaissance aircraft came close to collision

London, United Kingdom - A study published yesterday lists several potentially dangerous episodes happened in the last months

A SAS airline B-737 airplane on flight from Copenhagen to Rome with 132 Passengers on board came close to collision with a Russian reconnaissance aircraft that was flying with its transponder off. It might have been a disaster like that of Malaysia Airlines MH-17 flight shot down in Ukraine in July. The episode happened on March 3, but it was communicated yesterday, November 10, in a report by the...

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Rome, Italy, 11/11/2014 11:56
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