The dangerous rapprochement of two passenger airliners in the sky over Moscow occurred on Saturday evening. This was reported to Interfax by a source in air traffic control services.

From his words it follows that the executing flight from Tallinn "Superjet" was preparing for landing at the airport Sheremetyevo, when at an altitude of about 4300 meters the crew reported on the operation of a dangerous approach system with the "Boeing" going from Murmansk to the Vnukovo airport.

At the time of alarm, the distance between the aircraft was about 600 meters.

Under the command of the controllers, pilots were able to safely plant airplanes in the air and land at Sheremetyevo and Vnukovo. Landing aircraft was in normal mode, no one was hurt.

Official confirmation of this information has not yet been received.