Use the Global Player app to listen to live radio for LBC & LBC NewsDays after it emerged an RAF intelligence plane was involved in a "near-shoot down" with Russian fighter jets, the British and German aircraft intercepted three Russian planes. Wing Commander Maccoll, who commands the RAF's 140 Expeditionary Wing, said: "This was another demonstration of our readiness and commitment to react at speed to conduct a live intercept. But according to the officials, the incident was far more serious than was made out at the time