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Italian Air Force's F-16 took off to intercept an EgyptAir's plane

Brindisi, Italy - The commercial aircraft was flying from Paris to Italian Puglia region yesterday but communication problems warned Italian Air Force and ENAV

An Italian Air Force’s F-16A Adf Block 15 Fighting Falcon took off from Cervia Air Base yesterday to intercept a commercial aircraft belonging to Egyptian carrier EgyptAir while flying over Italy. Swiss traffic control authority revealed to ENAV (Italian National Air Traffic Control Authority) that an Egyptian civil airplane in flight from Paris to Brindisi was unable to communicate by radio maybe d...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 125363
Rome, Italy, 08/18/2005 12:47
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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