An SAS airliner had to change course at the last moment - not to collide with a Russian signals intelligence plane .
Both aircraft passed yet another in just 90 m away , revealing SVT Sydnytt .
SAS plane was the 3rd of March this year on the road from Copenhagen to Rome. Shortly after the lift from Kastrup crew received information about an unidentified plane in the middle of the route .
changed course
The Il-20M had not appeared on the SAS plane's own warning system or in the Scandinavian air traffic controllers , according Sydnytt . Instead , it had been detected by a radar station .
Five mil southwest of Malmö, SAS plane suddenly change course to avoid a collision .
The two aircraft passed under each other in just 90 meters , much less than the minimum of 300 meters.
Source
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article18844427.ab
" Is very close "
The Investigation ofthe event and it has been found that the second plane was a Russian signals intelligence flight .
- There was an Ilyushin Il -20M , according to information we received from the defense , said Jens Olsson , accident investigators at the Swedish Accident Investigation Board , to Sydnytt .
He continues:
- It's very close, I can imagine that it was an unpleasant experience in the cockpit. In the investigation of the incident shows that the crew had the Russian plane in near sight.
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