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Italian fighter jets instruct Maltese Cessna pilot to switch on radio control
Two fighter jets dispatched to identity pilot of Maltese Cessna that was not communicating with Trapani air traffic control
23 February 2016, 7:55am
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
1 min read
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A false alarm sent two Italian fighter jets up in air to verify the identification of a Maltese Cessna plane that lost contact with air traffic control at 4,000 feet above the Comiso environs.
Comiso lies some 22 kilometres west of Ragusa in the South of Sicily.
The two Eurofighter F2000 from the 37th Squadron took to the air on Monday afternoon from the military airfield of Birgi, to identify the Cessna that had left Malta but whose pilot had apparetly lost contact with air traffic control and was not responnding to repeated attempts at communication.
The fighter pilots instructed the Cessna’s pilot to re-establish communications with air traffic control.
