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Austria: French airplane intruded on the air space, fighters in flight to intercept it

Vienna, Austria - It dealt with a false alarm due to the lack of radio contact by the small turboprop with Austrian air traffic controllers

Austria showed the increase of alert degree in protecting its own air space during the last years after the attempt against New York’s Twin Towers. Two F-5 fighters quickly took off today to intercept a small French turboprop bound for Slovakia. Pilot would not have set radio contact with Austrian air traffic controllers and this fact would have warned Air Force. The two combat airplanes approached t...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 128093
Rome, Italy, 10/03/2005 13:11
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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