United States comments on incident involving airliner and fighter. According to recent reports, the F-15 fighter was sent by the command for a rapprochement with an Iranian passenger aircraft. The airliner is owned by Mahan Air.
The incident took place in the airspace of the Syrian Arab Republic.
U.S. Central Command said, that there is "nothing reprehensible" in the rapprochement of an F-15 fighter with an Iranian airline:
Our plane was doing the usual, duty mission in the Al-Tanfa area in the airspace over Syria.
apparently, for the United States, illegal presence in the airspace of an independent country has already become a "duty".
From the message of the Americans:
F-15 fighter approached a safe distance, identified the board and its affiliation (airlines) Mahan Air. Then I began to drift away, increasing the distance.
Americans claim, that the F-15 did not come closer to the airliner of the Iranian air carrier 1 km.
However, we know, that the airliner was forced to make an abrupt change of flight, then go for an emergency landing at the airport of the Lebanese capital Beirut. Even several casualties are reported. After a while, the plane continued its flight and landed at the Tehran airport..
Iran calls the incident an American provocation, people suffered as a result. Tehran believes, that the F-15 was sent for rendezvous with a passenger plane, to interfere with his flight, what, basically, It happened.
The network claims, that the F-15 crossed the course of an Iranian airliner and this footage is given:
You can see it on further pictures, how the fighter jets approach the passenger plane. According to an initial analysis, these are combat aircraft of the type #F15.https://t.co/U34VvT6rjxpic.twitter.com/gxaG68DJEU
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