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Italian Air Force: double scramble for the F-16s

Rome, Italy - A small plane intercepted over the Elba Island due to a sudden change of altitude on Friday and a Yak-42 escorted outside the national air space in the North yesterday

Italian Air Force’s F-16s performed a double scramble last week. An Italian Air Force’s fighter took off from Trapani for an interception mission over Elba Island’s skies on last Friday in the morning, due to a sudden change of ceiling by a small airplane flying from Reggio Calabria to Cremona. The small aircraft’s pilot would have called the Pisa’s control tower explaining that weather conditions led him t...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 126151
Rome, Italy, 09/05/2005 13:15
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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