Dramatic video shows Russian fighter jet flying dangerously close to aircraft off Alaska, NORAD says
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A Russian fighter jet flew dangerously close to aircraft deployed by the North American Aerospace Defense Command off the coast of Alaska, according to a video posted Monday by NORAD.
In the 15-second video posted to social media, a military jet can be seen flying just feet away from a NORAD aircraft as it speeds by, banking to its left and right. NORAD said it had deployed planes to fly a "safe and disciplined intercept" of the Russian aircraft in the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone, a zone that is beyond U.S. sovereign air space, but an area in which aircraft are expected to identify themselves.
"The conduct of one Russian Su-35 was unsafe, unprofessional, and endangered all – not what you'd see in a professional air force," Gen. Gregory Guillot, commander of the United States Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command, said in a statement.
