Usually banned from overflight, the sky of Paris was crossed on Friday March 12 afternoon by a fighter plane, tasked with monitoring a suspicious helicopter that entered the airspace without warning, the Air Force explained. to AFP.
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A little before 5 p.m., an unidentified civilian helicopter was detected about a hundred kilometers north-west of Paris by the Air and Space Army
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entered our airspace without contact radio beforehand,
”said his spokesperson, Colonel Stéphane Spet.
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The air defense and air operations command ordered the takeoff of a Sky Police Mirage 2000-5 from Évreux, which intercepted this helicopter in order to assess the situation,
" he continued.
The suspicious aircraft finally landed on its destination land in Issy-les-Moulineaux, south of Paris.
The air gendarmerie was responsible for continuing the action of the air police.
At the end of September, a fighter plane had startled the Parisians, after having been forced to cross the sound barrier near the capital to intercept an airliner in difficulty.
