Three near-misses in skies over Moscow in three months

“The biggest problem is the equipment,” Sergey Kovalyov, president of air traffic controllers trade union, told RT. “Some of the biggest air traffic control centres, including Moscow, work with machines made in the 1970s. There are cases when they stopped working and the controllers lost the picture of the air space, having to work in blind conditions.” (www.rt.com) Altro...