mo4ch:>Venezuela accuses US of another airspace violation week after scrambling jet to shadow spy plane | Mo4ch News
Caracas has accused the US of another airspace violation, just a week after Washington, in a similar incident, blamed Venezuela for ‘unprofessionally’ approaching and ‘aggressively’ shadowing its spy plane over the Caribbean.A Lockheed EP-3 surveillance aircraft violated the Venezuelan airspace near the coastal city of MaiquetÃa at around 10:58am local time Saturday, and circled the area for more than 3 hours, Operational Strategic Command of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (CEOFANB) said in a tweet, providing a diagram of the flight. The country’s air traffic control attempted to communicate with the intruder, but received no “effective response.”Just last week, a similar incident resulted in US crying foul over “unsafe” approach by an “aggressive” Venezuelan Su-30 fighter – and the media blaming Russia for its “irresponsible” support for Caracas. It is unclear if Venezuela scrambled any of its jets this time, and the US has yet to issue a comment over the incident.Also on rt.co…