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Old 6th Apr 2005, 09:39
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Kyprianos Biris
 
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Fairly common in Europe now. Generally the consequence of no r/t contact for one reason or another.
Indeed this was the case (once more).

There are posts which portray the RV8 pilot "evaded Hellenic Air Force" (HAF) ... yeah right !

http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#189474
and
http://www.eaa119.org/

Incidentally I was talking yesterday with one of the two air force pilots who were scrambled to the incident. His words: "... yes we followed the [bad word] all the way to the border with Nicosia FIR (Cyprus) doing orbits 2nm miles behind him since he was so damn slow ... "

Funny how they report HAF never found him. There was no intercept, simply a precautionary discrete following of the aircraft until it left Athens FIR. Once again media made a whole fuss about it.


This was the Hellenic press agency's report (in Greek) on March 24th regarding the incident.
http://www.naftemporiki.gr/news/stat...24/1026961.htm
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