the Pilot of one of the leading Russian airlines commented, “MK” footage of the incident, which is now widely discussed in social networks. They were filmed in the skies over Syria with Iranian passengers of the Airbus A310 Mahan Air airlines flying to Tehran.
the footage shows how in the sky to the Iranian civilian plane approached the American fighter F-15 and some time accompanied him in his flight. The crew of the Airbus A310, trying to avoid a collision, began to decline sharply, bringing on Board started to panic and some passengers were injured.
regarding this incident, the permanent representative of Iran to the UN Majid Takht-Ravanchi already filed a complaint to the Secretary-General of the international organization Antonio Guterres.
However, the official representative of the Central command of the Armed forces of the United States bill urban, commenting on the incident, said that the F-15 broke nothing, acted in accordance with international standards, holding from a civilian aircraft at a distance of about a kilometer.
Why, then, after the flight of American F-15 Iranian A310 began to decline sharply, thereby creating a panic on Board? The crew just freaked out and lost control, or a reason for such a dangerous maneuver could be some objective reasons? What the General should be the actions of the pilots in this situation? These questions of “MK” said the pilot with 40 years of experience in civil aviation Vladimir Salnikov.
-All military aircraft too close to civilian is quite dangerous, – said the pilot. But if the range there was about a kilometer, it is quite a long distance. Why, in this situation, the pilot of the Iranian aircraft began to decline sharply, hard to say.
But one of the alleged causes could be: if a military plane ahead of it crossed the course of a civil airliner, even at a considerable distance, in this case, the fighter could be the so-called cocurrent stream. When a civilian plane falls into this slipstream, it gets very hard to talk.
Perhaps, if you had such strong turbulence, the plane was not kept on your tier, closer to the critical angle of attack, and then the pilot turned the plane to the mode of reduction, not to fall into a tailspin. In any case, what happened is – a very dangerous situation.
my life was once like when flying on the Tu-154 over North Africa, we have been approached by two F-16 aircraft. First they saw my copilot, sitting on my right, and then myself. They came from behind, approached us in a lateral distance of approximately 100-150 meters, as I very clearly saw the face of the pilot. Fighters “hung there” we wing michickpeas five, then I saw the one I had left, shook his wings, and then climb and a sharp lapel, left. What happened to the one that was on the right wing, I didn’t even see.
According to the then existing rules, as soon as these planes approached us, I immediately contacted by distant relations with Moscow and reported that two F-16 took us in a pincer movement and was escorted. Whose were they belong, we did not know. Later, upon arrival I came to the representatives of the KGB, which I detail told about the incident. This is where it ended. But then F-16 course of our Tu-154 is not crossed, and we didn’t get slipstream. And with the Iranian plane, maybe it could have been much worse.
