Russian airline wins tender to return spy plane to US

Russian airline Polyot has won the tender for the right to transport the US Navy spy plane that landed in China out of the country and back to the United States, a company official said today.

Leonid Shirobokov, a spokesman for Polyot, told the Interfax and ITAR-Tass news agencies that his company had won the tender, which had been announced last week by the US Defense Department.