09.10.2014 - Čáslavské Gripeny vzlétly k nekomunikujícímu letadlu

Boeing 737-700 Transavia (registration PH-XRZ) on the line from Amsterdam Istanbul he entered Wednesday afternoon in the airspace of the Czech republic near Ústí nad Labem.
At the border failed to establish the standard connection and not communicating.
Air traffic controllers failed to establish the aircraft on the connection or on the emergency frequency. Therefore, in the centre of the management of air operations (CAOC) in Germany, whose interest area is the area from the Benelux to the Baltic states, they decided on take-off cash of aeroplanes JAS-39 Gripen from the čáslav base. Fighter jets equipped with anti-aircraft missile AIM-9 Sidewinder headed out to thirteen minutes from the receipt of the signal, wherein the prescribed period is the fifteen-minute.
Boeing Transavie held heading, speed and altitude and was heading to the Slovak border. In half of the sixth made contact with air traffic control in Bratislava. Gripeny to monitor up to the border with Slovakia, then came back to the base.

Source: zpravy.idnes.cz.
URL : https://www.valka.cz/09-10-2014-Caslavske-Gripeny-vzletly-k-nekomunikujicimu-letadlu-t176757#521022 Version : 0
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