QUICK TAKE-OFF FOR NATIONAL AIR DEFENCE INTERCEPTOR FIGHTERS

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Date: 23/09/2018

Source: Public Information Office - Rome

Author: Captain Stefania De Angelis

. This morning, the fighter jetsEurofighter Typhoonof 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.