The American aircraft of electronic reconnaissance Boeing RC-135V Rivet Joint forced to change the course of the civilian aircraft Airbus A330, en route over the Black Sea from Tel Aviv to Moscow.
According to the information portals Flightradar24 and Radarbox, tracking flights, the incident occurred the day before at around 10:00 Moscow time at about 42-44 degrees north latitude and 37-39 degrees east longitude.
According to reports, the civilian liner was forced to drop altitude.
As pointed out by the resource PlaneRadar, the US Air Force plane, which became a participant in the incident, took off from the Souda base on the island of Crete under the call sign OLIVEW92. Later, while flying over the Russian border, he changed it to HOMER59