Latvian cargo plane enters British airspace – RAF Typhoons gives chase

A Russian-built cargo plane of Latvia violated British airspace and, as a result, RAF Typhoon jets were scrambled from RAF Coningsby to intercept the Antonov An-26 airliner news.sky.com. The Typhoons threatened to shoot down the plane.

It seems the plane had lost communication with air traffic controllers as it headed towards London. The RAF planes escorted the Russian-built plane to Stansted airport, where it landed at around 5.20pm.
A search of the RAF-Avia plane by the police revealed that the plane was carrying car parts from Reims, France, to Birmingham.
The alarm was raised because the plane that was travelling over the Channel towards Kent did not respond to communications with air traffic control as it entered British airspace.

Incidentally, this incident came even as NATO had reported about "unusual level of air activity" in European airspace. In fact, it had tracked four groups of Russian military aircraft that were carrying out significant military maneuvers over the past two days. The aircraft were strategic bombers, fighters and tanker aircraft and the exercises were over the Baltic Sea, North Sea, Atlantic Ocean and the Black Sea.