Hungarian Military Helicopter Scrambled After Austrian Gliders Breached Hungarian Airspace
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Hungarian military helicopter scrambled after Austrian gliders breached Hungarian airspace
A Hungarian military helicopter took off from Pápa airbase on Tuesday after two glider pilots failed to establish radio contact with Hungarian air traffic control, Defence Minister Romulusz Ruszin-Szendi said on Facebook.Continue reading
Two gliders failed to establish radio contact with Hungarian air traffic control. A military helicopter warned the pilots with hand signals.
Two gliders entered Hungarian airspace from Austria without permission or radio contact on Tuesday afternoon. The crew of the Hungarian Defence Forces search and rescue helicopter, which was alerted from the Pápa base, eventually contacted the pilots using hand signals, so there was no need to launch fighter jets.
There was no contact, so it was necessary to intervene.
The shift leader of the Air Operations and Control Center reported early in the afternoon that the pilot of the glider that had entered Hungarian airspace from Austria had not established radio contact with air traffic services.
A search and rescue helicopter had to be alerted. The post Two gliders flew into Hungarian airspace from Austria first appeared on 24.hu.
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