Swiss jet enters Estonian airspace without permission

Location of Vaindloo island (red pin), in relation to Estonia, Finland and the Russian Federation..
Location of Vaindloo island (red pin), in relation to Estonia, Finland and the Russian Federation.. Source: Google Maps

A jet of Swiss air force origin briefly entered Estonian airspace without permission Wednesday, the Ministry of Defense reports.

The plane, which the ministry reported was a CL60, passed through Estonian airspace for about a minute, in the vicinity of the uninhabited island of Vaindloo, which lies in the Gulf of Finland.

The plane did, however, have a functioning transponder set to a recognized frequency, a flight plan had been filed, and flight crew maintained contact with Estonian air traffic control.

The foreign ministry has, however, handed the Swiss embassy in Tallinn a diplomatic note on the matter. The flight is the fifth to have entered Estonian airspace without permission this year, the ministry says, though the first to involve a plane from a country other than the Russian Federation.

Vaindloo is one of the most common sites of such incursions.

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