If this is true, as its an Air Defence system, why were air defence assets not launched to intercept the contact?
TCAS FAN - what makes you so sure they weren't?
As I said many, many posts ago, that particular chain of events could very easily lead to one very unpalatable outcome - one that no country would want to admit to. Such a scenario would best be subsequently handled by having everybody search on one area, whilst you clean up the mess in another.