US, Russian flights meet up in Vienna for spy swap

U.S. and Russian flights believed to be carrying candidates for a 14-person spy swap landed in Vienna on Friday, parking nose-to-tail in a remote section of the tarmac as the largest such exchange since the Cold War moved into its final stage.

The U.S. charter _ a maroon-and-white Boeing 767-200 carrying 10 deported Russian agents _ arrived after flying overnight from New York's La Guardia airport. Within minutes, it came to a halt behind a Yakovlev Yak-42 _ Russian Emergencies Ministry plane thought to be carrying the four Russians to be exchanged.

Stairs were put up to the U.S. flight and people wearing fluorescent yellow jackets entered the plane.

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