Georgia did not allow the flight of Russian radio-locating identification plane A-50 through its air space, head of the Russian Air Force General Staff colonel general Boris Cheltsov told ITAR-TASS. "A-50 plane, which had to perform tasks of reconnaissance of targets and aiming planes in the course of the command and staff training of the CIS United Anti-Aircraft System in the air space of Armenia, is doing it in the sky over the North Caucasian region," the general reported. He noted that 56 planes and a helicopter participate in the maneuvers.