Onur A321 losscomm

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Incident: Onur A321 near Munich on Aug 20th 2011, losscomm prompts intercept

Ref: http://www.avherald.com/h?article=441aadc1&opt=0


By Simon Hradecky, created Sunday, Aug 21st 2011 18:54Z, last updated Monday, Aug 22nd 2011 19:34Z

An Onur Air Airbus A321-200, registration TC-OAL performing flight 8Q-6380 from Manchester,EN (UK) via Bodrum (Turkey) to Ercan (Cyprus), was enroute at FL330 over Germany when radio communication with the aircraft was lost for more than 15 minutes without the crew setting their transponder to the loss of communication code. A pair of German Eurofighters intercepted the aircraft over Bavaria's Chiemsee southeast of Munich, communication was restored and the aircraft continued to Bodrum for a safe landing about 2 hours later.

The sonic booms were widely heard in Bavaria causing a lot of emergency calls by worried citizens.

On Saturday (Aug 20th) Munich-Erding's police reported the Eurofighters went supersonic on a training mission.

On Sunday Bavaria's Police Headquarter however confirmed that the Eurofighters were on a protective mission ("Schutzflug").

On Monday Germany's Air Force confirmed that an Onur Aircraft entered Bavarian Airspace however no radio contact could be established by Munich Radar. Two Eurofighters were launched at 16:13L to intercept the aircraft. About 5 minutes later the fighers had intercepted the A321 over Lake Chiemsee, the Onur pilots however did not understand the problem despite international signalling by the Eurofighter crews and continued enroute towards Austria. Two Austrian Eurofighters were launched as well and took over. The Onur crew slowly seemed to realize that they had lost radio contact and finally restored radio communication while over Graz (Austria) just before the Hungarian Air Force would have launched their interceptors. The German Air Forces assume, that the Onur crew simply forgot to change frequency or selected a wrong one while being handed off to Munich Radar.

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http://www.merkur-online.de:80/lokales/ ... cmp=iPhone

[MarcoGT]

the Onur pilots however did not understand the problem despite international signalling by the Eurofighter crews and continued enroute towards Austria. Two Austrian Eurofighters were launched as well and took over. The Onur crew slowly seemed to realize that they had lost radio contact and finally restored radio communication while over Graz (Austria) just before the Hungarian Air Force would have launched their interceptors. The German Air Forces assume, that the Onur crew simply forgot to change frequency or selected a wrong one while being handed off to Munich Radar.

Ok, sbagliato frequenza...ma non si sono chiesti come mai non rispondesse nessuno?

[gtoffolon]

Anche il fatto che non abbiano compreso il messaggio codificato degli intercettori mi sembra grave, significa una mancanza di preparazione sull'argomento con esiti potenzialmente pericolosi.