Swiss military plane nearly collided with civil aircraft on June 4

The Swiss Air Force on Sunday confirmed a report that a Swiss military plane nearly collided with a business jet above Geneva earlier this month.

The F-18 Hornet fighter plane had been on a training flight on June 4 when it almost crashed with the civilian plane flying from Spain, Swiss Air Force spokesman Juerg Nussbaum said, confirming the report published Sunday in the weekly SonntagsZeitung.

He said the incident is being …