A Russian fighter jet tried to blow a manned reconnaissance plane out of the sky over the Black Sea but the missile failed in an incident US defence officials revealed was far more serious than first thought.The blundering pilot mistakenly believed a radar operator on the ground had given him permission to fire on the British jet in September last year.On September 29, an RAF RC-135 Rivet Joint surveillance aircraft was flying through international airspace close to the Russian-occupied Crimea peninsula when it was buzzed by a squadron of Moscow's Su-27 fighters.
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