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An impressive increase of AMI's interceptions after September 11, 2001
Rome, Italy - The Italian fighters to constantly operate during Easter
Recently, Italian Air Force Head of General Staff, Gen. Sandro Ferracuti, unveiled data regarding interceptions performed by AMI's fighters up to today starting from September 11, 2001: some 67 notifications compared with mere 4 reported during the period November 2000-August 2001. Anyway, most of cases concern verifying activities for overflight permission, while false hijacking appears to be a minor...
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 61029
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency