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To: Marty Eaves who wrote (132)	4/6/2001 1:38:29 PM
From: PatiBob	Respond to of 2279

My brother is in Valdez Alaska. They get reports from boats out there about the Russian planes flying over. It's not an every day thing but several times a year they show up. And speaking of Russia, the news reports differ between their controllers and ours with regards to the Delta flight bound for Japan that was turned back because they didn't get the proper clearance to fly into Russian airspace. Paper: Houston Chronicle Date: FRI 04/06/01 Section: A Page: 16 Edition: 3 STAR Russia turns Delta flight away / Moscow: Jetliner violated airspace Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO - A Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta to Japan was forced to return to the United States after Russian air traffic controllers said it did not have permission to fly through their airspace . Flight 55, carrying 203 passengers and 15 crew members, was about 20 minutes into Russian airspace when the controllers notified pilots the flight lacked proper clearance, said an airlines spokesman. Some 9 1/2 hours into the flight, the plane had to turn around and fly 5 1/2 more hours to recross the Pacific and land in San Francisco early Thursday morning. Frustrated passengers from the aborted flight were given hotel rooms and a $6 meal voucher. They got a few hours of sleep and were rebooked on other flights to Japan starting Thursday morning, most traveling aboard two United Airlines flights. "Basically, I could have driven here a lot faster if I had a car," passenger Bill Reilly said as he left the plane in San Francisco. Robert Usov, a spokesman for the civil aviation sector of the Russian Air Traffic Control Center in Moscow, said Delta had failed to send a request in time for permission to fly through Russian airspace but was given special clearance by Moscow. "The flight wasn't in our plan. However, we decided to let the plane (fly) through our airspace and gave corresponding orders to the Khabarovsk regional air traffic control center. I don't know what the problem was but, I repeat, we let the Delta flight in," Usov said. "Maybe there was some misunderstanding." Top officials at the office in Khabarovsk, the control site for flights entering or leaving Russia over the Pacific route, weren't available for comment. "It was an isolated incident," said Delta spokeswoman Alesia Watson. "Something happened that just normally doesn't happen. It was an odd set of circumstances and steps have been taken to make sure that it doesn't happen again."