Two passenger planes narrowly avoided colliding in the airspace of Kazakhstan.

According to reports released by the Kazakh news agency today, on January 10, the Russian "Victory Airlines" flight PBD997 from Moscow Vnukovo Airport to Samarkand, Uzbekistan, had a dangerous encounter in the Chimkent airspace control center responsibility zone in Kazakhstan with the Uzbekistan Airlines flight UZB9609 from Tashkent to Moscow. The incident was classified as a "serious aviation event" by the Kazakh Ministry of Transport and Communications, and a special committee will be established to investigate.