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Article: Russian air force jet scrambled after radar mistakes cloud for intruding aircraft
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- January 26, 2005
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AP Worldstream
01-26-2005
Dateline: MOSCOW
A Russian air force fighter jet was scrambled Wednesday and dispatched to the border with Lithuania to intercept an intruding aircraft, which later turned out to be a thick, fast moving cloud, a Russian news agency reported.
Anatoly Lobsky, an aide to the Russian Baltic Fleet commander, told the ITAR-Tass news agency that a Su-27 fighter was ordered into the air near Russia's Baltic Sea enclave of Kaliningrad after radar spotted a light plane entering Russian airspace from Lithuania.
The plane found nothing after ...