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The Leaks of the Russian Leak
A Russian fighter spotted the plane and apparently radioed back to its space. There seemed to be a sort of jumbled messages going on between base and pilot. So he, as they say, locked on and he did actually aim a missile at the plane. But by sheer luck, the missile was faulty and it didn't hit the plane. It was that close. And I think in this case, nearly ended up with the death of probably about 30 Brits on board that signal is intelligence plane. That's highly unlikely. I would have thought even the Kremlin wouldn't do it.
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