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French flight controllers lose contact with Belgian airplane: the pilot was asleep

Brussels, Belgium - It happened on June 28, but the news was spread now, at the end of the investigation

Last June 28 an Airbus A-319 airplane operated by Brussels Airline lost control with air traffic controllers while it was flying over Nantes, in France. It was reached by a Rafale fighter, which escorted it to the Belgium border. The event has been known only now, at the end of the investigation by the Belgian Direction of aviation (Direction générale de la navigation aérienne). The Belgian newspaper “H...

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Rome, Italy, 10/22/2014 15:27
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