More than 50 planes last Saturday crossed the sky Rostov region in the course of one hour, which caused the overload of air space, said on air of radio station " Echo of Moscow " the head of the Federal trade Union of air traffic controllers of Russia Sergey Kovalev.

before the last working day of the week Russian and foreign airlines told about the decision to fly to third countries, bypassing East of Ukraine or its airspace at all. This decision caused the crash in Donetsk region Malaysian Boeing. According to the interior Ministry of Ukraine, the aircraft was shot down at a height of 10 kilometers.

" in connection with the redirection of many domestic flights, most Russian airlines, which ran through the territory of Ukraine, passed in the air, shifted to the East - It has overburdened the airspace in the Rostov air area for an hour 52 aircraft. This is, frankly, exceeding all standards ", - he said.

However, according to him, in the sectors of air traffic control at the same time in contact with air traffic controllers was to 26 aircraft. Kovalev has paid attention that the issue of regulation of air traffic in the moment " there are problems ", and in the future it is necessary to distribute the traffic on routes " More equal ", because " otherwise, It is dangerous ".

on Thursday evening in the Donetsk region crashed Boeing 777 organization Malaysia Airlines carrying out flight Amsterdam - Kuala Lumpur, the beauty of which there were 298 persons, including 85 children and fifteen members of the crew. The survivors of a plane crash not. The Kyiv authorities have charged disaster militias, and they told us that do not have the means, which could bring down the plane at this altitude.

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