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Qatar aircraft violated Slovak airspace because of radio failure

Bratislava , Slovakia - Two Slovak jet fighters escorted the airplane to Hungary

Diffused only yesterday the news that on October 22, in the morning, a Qatari passenger liner en route from London to Doha entered the Slovak airspace with no permissions of the Slovak air traffic controllers because of radio failure. Two Slovak war planes MiG-29 were mobilised to intercept the Qatar Airways Airbus A-330 through a scramble mission aimed to disambiguate the violation. The MiG-29...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1135110
Rome, Italy, 10/26/2011 14:36
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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