Avoid flights over Baltic Sea with transponders off: Finnish President

Reuters

Published Jul 01, 2016 12:19PM ET

Updated Jul 01, 2016 12:30PM ET

Avoid flights over Baltic Sea with transponders off: Finnish President

NAANTALI, Finland (Reuters) - Military flights with devices used for identification turned off should be avoided in the Baltic Sea region, Finland's President Sauli Niinisto said on Friday at a joint news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"We all know the risk with these flights and I have suggested that we should agree that transponders are used on all flights in the Baltic Sea region," Niinisto said.