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Italian Air Force: air defence on the alert on Saturday, September 10

Rome, Italy - Double interception South from Trento in the morning and North from Naples in the afternoon by the F-16s

Air defence on the alert in Italy on last Saturday. A Cessna flying from Olbia to Munich did not honour radio communication procedures with air traffic controllers on the ground and it was intercepted South from Trento by an Italian Air Force’s F-16A ADF Block 15 Fighting Falcon after 12:30pm, and then escorted till the border after restoring radio communication. Another aircraft, an Ukrainian Yak-40 b...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 126644
Rome, Italy, 09/12/2005 12:15
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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