COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Russian ambassadors were summoned by the Swedish and Danish governments Monday to hear complaints after a near collision between a Russian military plane and a civilian plane.
A passenger jet flown by Cimber Sterling, affiliated with the Swedish airline SAS, was forced to change course to avoid a Russian military plane near Malmo, Sweden, after it departed Copenhagen Friday, Swedish authorities said. It is the latest in a series of incidents in which Russian fighter jets and reconnaissance planes have interfered with commercial air traffic in the Baltic Sea area.