A low-flying Russian spy plane was spotted Wednesday over parts of Washington, D.C., and Bedminster, New Jersey, where President Trump is vacationing at his Trump National Golf Course -- but the flight had been approved under a long-standing global treaty, officials said. The Russian spy plane, Tupolev Tu-154M, flew near the golf resort at 4,000 feet, and then climbed to 5,000 feet before flying into New York airspace, two U.S. defense officials told Fox News. One of the officials said the Russian jet flew through the Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) airspace that was established around the golf club. There have been more than 1,200 Open Skies flights since the treaty became enforced in 2002. After each flight, the host nation gets a copy of any imagery taken by the observation aircraft.

Source: Fox News August 10, 2017 01:18 UTC