New Delhi: For several minutes on Tuesday afternoon, India's anti-hijack response system went into a state of high alert after a passenger aircraft flying to the national capital lost contact with the air traffic control towers. Given the many scary possibilities, a Mirage 2000 fighter was scrambled from Gwalior.
Sources in the Indian Air Force (IAF) said the Joint Command Analysis Centre (JCAC) in Delhi, which looks into threats from hijack situations, ordered the Mirage fighter to track the 'missing aircraft'.
The JCAC is headed by an IAF officer and comprises representatives from both IAF and civilian authorities dealing with aviation. The response came after an Alliance Air aircraft flying from Allahabad to Delhi lost radio contact sometime in the afternoon. "The SOP (standard operating procedure) in such situations was immediately put in place," an official said.
The JCAC alerted the IAF bases in the region by 4.38 pm. At 4.41 pm, a Mirage fighter from the IAF's Gwalior base was airborne to search for the aircraft.
19/03/15 Times of India
Sources in the Indian Air Force (IAF) said the Joint Command Analysis Centre (JCAC) in Delhi, which looks into threats from hijack situations, ordered the Mirage fighter to track the 'missing aircraft'.
The JCAC is headed by an IAF officer and comprises representatives from both IAF and civilian authorities dealing with aviation. The response came after an Alliance Air aircraft flying from Allahabad to Delhi lost radio contact sometime in the afternoon. "The SOP (standard operating procedure) in such situations was immediately put in place," an official said.
The JCAC alerted the IAF bases in the region by 4.38 pm. At 4.41 pm, a Mirage fighter from the IAF's Gwalior base was airborne to search for the aircraft.
19/03/15 Times of India
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