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Supposed Vueling aircraft hijacking (7): the same flight involved in a scramble one year ago (VIDEO)

AMsterdam, Netherlands - Also in that occasion the reason was a radio problem

The episode of the supposed hijacking of a Vueling Amsterdam-bound aircraft departed from Malaga fortunately ended without any consequence: radio communications between the airplane and the control tower of the Dutch airport interrupted, and then two F-16 fighters operated a scramble, escorting the Airbus of the Spanish company on Schiphol Airport's runway. The problem which generated the alert was...

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Rome, Italy, 08/29/2012 17:42
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