Coming in for a landing airliner with 172 passengers almost came under fire from Syrian air defenses when it repelled an Israeli attack near Damascus. Eventually the Plane was taken on the Russian air base " Hamim ", said the official authorized the Ministry of defense of Russia Igor Konashenkov. According to the General, after 2 hours of Thursday night four F-16 fighter Israeli air force without entering the Syrian airspace caused sudden strike eight missiles "air-land" on the suburbs of Damascus. Konashenkov added that the existing Syrian military units actively used anti-aircraft missile systems of air defense in repelling Israeli RAID. at this point, in the area of the international airport of Damascus made a landing passenger plane Airbus-320 in the cabin which was 172 passengers. As explained Konashenkov, just because of the prompt actions of dispatchers of the Moscow air port and efficient operation of automatic system of air traffic control managed to get the Airbus out of range of Syrian air defenses and successfully land it on the nearest alternate aerodrome - the home base of " Hamim ". The General has noticed that in the world the movement of passenger flights is carried out in known high-altitude trains that radar means Israel can clearly see. He added that More distinctly Israeli radar can see the traffic situation at the airport of Damascus. He expressed regret that "such operations by the Israeli strategists "" no respect for the lives of hundreds of innocent civilians ". A month before, eleven January, the Iranian military shot down a Ukrainian Boeing 737-800 aircraft with 176 people in the cabin. The plane flew quite close to a military target Iran in a confrontation with the United States and was accepted for the " enemy target ". <span style="color:darkgray