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Old 1st March 2012 | 12:36
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Torque Tonight
 
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znww5, that's a bit below the belt. You are not comparing like with like and the accidents that you are probably thinking of could equally have occured to civil aircraft.

Sitting on both sides of the fence here I think the RAF came across very badly in the interview but I am sure that is down to selective editing. To those getting awfully defensive about talk of GA infringements, you can pretty much guarantee that there will be 'non-malicious' infringements of the olympic airspace - some GA pilots get lost, some don't read NOTAMS. The risk of a malicious infringement is very, very low, but post 911 something we have to insure against. I suspect that it would not necessarily be Typhoons intercepting low speed targets, but I should probably leave it there.
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