The Pentagon complained that a Russian Su-30 had carried out an unsafe intercept of a U.S. Navy P-8A on Nov. 25 over the Black Sea.
The American crew reported that the fighter crossed its flight path from right to left with its afterburners engaged. The maritime patrol aircraft had no way of avoiding its jet wash.
Lt. Col. Michelle Baldanza, a spokeswoman for the Pentagon, told CNN that Poseidon experience “a 15-degree roll and violent turbulence.”
The encounter last 24 minutes.