The World - News from July 12, 1985
A Soviet air force pilot was believed killed when his SU-15 jet fighter crashed in the Baltic Sea after pursuing a Swedish fighter plane monitoring a Warsaw Pact naval exercise, officials in Stockholm reported. The incident occurred Sunday when the Swedish fighter approached an East Bloc naval exercise in international waters, defense spokesman Jan Tuninger said. He said both pilots were following routine procedures.
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