In the photo: UFOs often track planes
On Saturday, Tu-204 and Tu-154 nearly collided in Vnukovo due to violation of the interval between the planes, and yesterday in Sheremetyevo the plane had to go around because of an unidentified flying object
In Vnukovo and Sheremetyevo, two violations were recorded in the Moscow air zone over the weekend, the press service of the Federal Air Transport Agency told Infox.ru.
Tupolevs did not miss each other
The first incident happened on Saturday morning. Due to the lack of a safe interval between the aircraft, the dispatchers had to stop taking off the Tu-204 from Vnukovo airport. And the second participant of the state of emergency, Tu-154, was forced to go around during the landing approach.
According to a source in the Ministry of Transport, the first airliner was flying Vnukovo-Antalya, the second was returning to Moscow from Surgut. Now a specially created commission is finding out how the safe interval between the planes was violated.
UFO in the sky near Moscow
On Sunday afternoon, Sheremetyev's air traffic control service recorded an unidentified flying object at a distance of 16 km from the runway number 25. Presumably, it was a small private aircraft - hang glider or motor hang glider.
Nevertheless, the approaching aircraft A-321, performing the Krasnoyarsk-Moscow flight, went to the second round. Violation of the rules for the use of airspace was immediately reported to all services of Sheremetyev.
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The press services of the airports have not yet commented on the incidents.
A second before the disaster
Last week, a similar kurtosis occurred in the skies over the Moscow region. Miraculously, it was possible to avoid a collision between the Tu-154, which was flying on the Moscow-Samara route, with the Boeing flying to Vladivostok.
A dangerous situation arose in the area of the Cherusti settlement on April 24th. Both aircraft carried approximately 300 passengers.
The plane of one of the leading Russian airlines Tu-154, having taken off from Vnukovo, gained altitude with the landing gear extended. Because of this, the liner began to lose speed. This could have ended in a "flat spin, from which a large civilian plane would not have been able to get out," while it would have collided with a Boeing, which was flying from Domodedovo along the same air route, but below and at a distance of 4 km.
However, the situation was successfully resolved thanks to the dispatcher of the Moscow Center for Automated Air Traffic Control Ilya Kurakulov. He had one second to prevent a plane crash, since the incident itself on the approach of two planes lasted 15 seconds. The dispatcher informed the Boeing crew about the approaching Tu-154 and ordered to stop the climb.