The Greek F-16 fighter intercepted the Lebanon passenger aircraft, suspected it was hijacked, and found that the pilot identity was special

According to media reports such as Russia New News Agency on the 15th, the Greek media Pentapostagma quoted the aircraft tracking website Intelsky that Greece recently sent F-16 fighters to intercept a Lebanese passenger aircraft carrying 145 passengers because the passenger plane was suspected of being hijacked It's right.

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It is reported that the incident occurred on August 10, but was disclosed only 5 days later. It is reported that the Airbus A321NEO model passenger plane belongs to the Lebanon Middle East Airlines and was flying from Madrid to Beirut. During the flight, the NATO Air Control Center in Spain issued a "Code Renegade" signal, requiring to intercept this non -response civil aircraft. This is a common help signal for NATO, used to indicate that the plane was hijacked or a bomb on the aircraft.

Although the Air Control Center tried to contact the passenger aircraft several times, it did not receive any radio response, which made the Greek authorities worry. Subsequently, Greek officials ordered the F-16 fighter at the Suda base to lift off and approach the passenger plane above the Algulida in the northeast of the Beroponnenian Peninsula. At around 7:30 pm on August 10, the two Greek fighters were close to the passenger plane and re -established contact with the pilot to determine that there was no problem with the passenger plane.

Screenshot of the tweet published by the Intelsky website

Intelsky website said that the pilot of the passenger plane was the son of the chairman of the Middle East Airlines. He obviously forgot to adjust the instrument to the correct frequency, so he missed the contact signal issued by the Greek authorities. The website also released a video of fighter planes with a passenger aircraft on social media Twitter. (Edit: HHJ)

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