Originally Posted by
JanetFlight
Entering Italian FIR near southern Brindisi and only get scrambled around northern Aosta,,,thats makes almost hour and half flying over mainland Italy without no comms or other signs, not even a 7600. I wonder how they managed to do it without being "busted" earlier for almost 90 minutes, specially having in mind how NATO'esque and military'busy Italy and Med'Sea shores are these days..!?
We don't actually know that's what happened.
All we do know is that comms were lost at some point between entering Italian airspace and the decision to intercept.
The Italian press are reporting simply that the AF "lost contact" with ATC, without any indication of where that occurred.