Originally Posted by
daikilo
If only the French scrambled
Nope, Italian scrambled too.
Originally Posted by
daikilo
and only one aircraft
That's SOP. How many fighters do you think is needed for escorting a liner? Or even to shoot it down, if it comes to that (hopefully never)?
One intercepted, and was joined by another one in the finale phase of the Boeing flight.
And that's more than what the Swiss scrambled
Re: squawk:
FR24 picked ETH702 @ 22:50 on the 16th, squawking 2442. Immediatly after, @ 22:51, the squawk bacame 7500. It stayed so 'til landing.
Now, this are FR24 data, which only cover Khartoum's surroundings (then it's Italy), i.e. not Ethiopia nor Egypt (except airound Cairo) nor Libya.