The communication was, however, safely restored within a few minutes. A reported communication failure on board a Jet Airways aircraft while flying in the German skies gave a scare to German authorities who feared a hijack and scrambled their fighter jets. The pilots of the Boeing-777 lost contact due to a reported communication failure, the Jet Airways said in a statement in Mumbai on Sunday. However, the communication was safely restored within minutes 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.

Source: dna February 19, 2017 13:16 UTC