Aircraft with passengers from Norway Flew to Ukraine: as it was not shot down by air defense systems (map)

BBN Airline promises to prevent such incidents in the future. The aircraft can carry up to 180 passengers. Together with the crew it was chartered by the Turkish airline Freebird, so she became a responsible flight operator, journalists said. The charter aircraft flew from the Garderdmuen airport to the Turkish resort town of Antalya at 22:08 Norwegian time. The route was changed and flew over Ukraine to bypass the storm.

The aircraft returned from the northeast of Hungary to southwestern Ukraine and entered the airspace of Romania. "It is potentially dangerous to fly in the war zone, where there are air defense remedies, which usually fly passenger planes, and where there may be combat aircraft that do not broadcast their location," - commented the situation of the Norwegian Air Force School Lars Peder Haga . The specialist considers an extremely unlikely damage to the aircraft with Russian ballistic missiles.

It compares the likelihood of finding the needle in the haystack. The most dangerous scenario, in his opinion, would be that Ukrainian air defense systems can perceive the aircraft as a hostile target. The Armed Forces are aware of highly loaded airspace in the West, so they will not be knocked down by passenger planes in mistake, the expert added.

"Specialists of Ukrainian alert systems and air defense systems are highly qualified, they could recognize the aircraft as a passenger in height, direction and signal of the transponder," he summed up. Recall that the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on August 10 declared a span of two strategic Tu-160 rocket launchers over the neutral waters of the Barents Sea and the Arctic Ocean.