The Two Italian Air Force
Typhoons jets accelerated to a supersonic speed to intercept Airlines 214
flight to Middle East, the Airbus 320 from Geneva to Beirut.
The two typhoon fighter planes belongs
to 4° Stormo (Wing) from the Grosseto in the QRA (Quick Reaction Alert)
service round the clock together with those 36° Stormo from Gioia del Colle,
were immediately dispatched to intercept a Lebanese plane that have once flying
over Bari, in the southeastern of Italy, radioed the Italian Air Traffic
Control the request to immediately land at Rome Fiumicino airport, because of bomb
threat.
The said two armed Typhoons jets intercepted
the Airbus 320 T7—MRC and escorted it to landing on a runway 16R at the airport
Fiumicino, then circled at a low altitude over the sea near the airport, until the
security forces surrounded the plane and brought it to an isolated parking
slot.
No comments:
Post a Comment