Hungarian Gripens scrambled because of bomb threat on Turkish aircraft
Hungarian Gripen fighter jets were scrambled by NATO’s Combined Air Operations Centre on Monday afternoon following a report of a bomb threat made on a Turkish Airbus passenger aircraft that had taken off from Poland, the Defence Ministry told MTI.
The aircraft, coming from Poland, entered Hungarian airspace in the Balassagyarmat area. The aircraft escorted the airliner to the Romanian border, then returned to the Kecskemét airbase, the Hungarian Air Ministry said.
As we wrote a week ago, unidentified aircraft detected at Hungary’s Eastern border again, fighters alerted
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