more-inGermany scrambled its fighter jets as a Jet Airways flight from Mumbai to London went into radio silence over Cologne last week. The pilots of the Boeing-777 cou.d not contact the ground owing to a reported snag, Jet Airways said in a statement here on Sunday. Lands safelyHowever, the link was quickly restored, and the flight landed at its destination without any hitch, the statement said. “Contact between Jet Airways flight 9W-118 from Mumbai to London Heathrow, of February 16, 2017, and the local ATC, was briefly lost while flying over German airspace,” the airline statement said. “As a precaution, the German Air Force (GAF) scrambled its fighter jets to ensure the safety of the flight and its passengers,” it said.

Source: The Hindu February 19, 2017 19:18 UTC