Comunicato stampa n. 88/2018 DECOLLO RAPIDO PER I CACCIA INTERCETTORI DELLA DIFESA AEREA NAZIONALE In the early afternoon today, fighter aircraft Eurofighter Typhoon of the Italian Air Force, on alert duty for the defence of national airspace, carried out an intervention on an immediate take-off order (in technical jargon called a “scramble”) to intercept and check a civilian aircraft that had lost radio contact with air traffic control bodies.