AIR DEFENCE: EUROFIGHTER FIGHTERS INTERCEPT CIVILIAN AIRCRAFT THAT HAD LOST RADIO CONTACT

The aircraft of the 36th Wing, already airborne for a transfer mission to Grosseto military airport to perform a flyover of the Mugello racetrack in the afternoon, intervened to identify an aircraft without radio contact.

13/09/2020

Source: Public Information Office - Rome

Author: Capt Antonetti Simone

The fighters of the 36th Wing, already airborne for a ferry mission to Grosseto military airport to perform an overflight of the Mugello circuit in the afternoon, intervened to identify an aircraft with no radio contact. In the mThis morning, two interceptor fighter jets Eurofighter of the 36th Wing in Gioia del Colle (Bari), already airborne for a transfer mission to Grosseto military airport to conduct in the afternoon a I fly over the Mugello circuit on the occasion of the Tuscan GP Ferrari 1000, they intervened to identify an Eurostar ultralight aircraft that had lost radio contact with the national civil air traffic authorities.