Similar thing happened to a Onur Air MD-88 from Bodrum to Edinburgh last week on October 15. Apparently the crew did not call up on the R/T for some time when being handed over to the Austrians, who promptly took action and dispatched aircraft to intercept the MD-88.
The BBC link is here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/...00/1602077.stm
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