Because the radio link with a machine of the Israeli airline El Al was lost, two Eurofighters of the German army took off towards the plane on Easter Monday. Filmed a passenger on the plane (video above).
As Defense Department spokesman Michael Bauer said on Twitter on Monday (tweet below), the alarm went off at 1:08 p.m. Two standby Eurofighters took off directly from Zeltweg in Styria.
The passenger plane of Israel’s largest airline was en route from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv and at that time flew via Spittal/Drau in Carinthia. At 1:20 p.m. — with “simultaneous visual contact by the Eurofighters” — radio contact with the El-Al machine was restored, Bauer said.
So it shouldn’t have been an emergency. It is not yet known why the radio connection was lost.
Source: Krone
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