AIR DEFENCE, EUROFIGHTER FIGHTER INTERCEPTS UNIDENTIFIED CIVILIAN AIRCRAFT

The fighter jet from Grosseto's 4th Wing, already airborne for a training mission, intervened to investigate an unidentified radar track between Lazio and Tuscany.

20/08/2020

Source: General Office of the Chief of Staff of the Air Force

Author: Public Information Office - Rome

The fighter jet from Grosseto's 4th Wing, already airborne for a training mission, intervened to investigate an unidentified radar track between Lazio and Tuscany. Late this morning, A Eurofighter Typhoon from the 4th Wing of Grosseto, already in flight for a training mission, intervened to investigate an unidentified radar contact of an aircraft flying between Lazio and Tuscany. The order to change the mission from training to operational was given by the IT-AOC, an arm of the Aerospace Operations Command at Poggio Renatico (FE), which is responsible for the surveillance and control of national airspace.