A Korean Airlines Boeing 747-400 freighter, registration HL7603 performing freight flight KE-577 from Brussels (Belgium) to Seoul (South Korea), did not communicate for 100 minutes while enroute over Germany, but also did not squawk "loss of communication". Germany scrambled fighter planes to identify the aircraft. After the fighters approached the airplane, the crew of the Korean freighter began to communicate again.
The airline reported, that the crew had missed the frequency change as the airplane entered German airspace, but continued to track their filed route.
Source: the aviation herald
Incident: Korean Airlines B744 over Germany on Feb 20th 2009
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Re: Incident: Korean Airlines B744 over Germany on Feb 20th 2009
100 minutes ?Marten wrote:A Korean Airlines Boeing 747-400 freighter, registration HL7603 performing freight flight KE-577 from Brussels (Belgium) to Seoul (South Korea), did not communicate for 100 minutes while enroute over Germany, but also did not squawk "loss of communication". Germany scrambled fighter planes to identify the aircraft. After the fighters approached the airplane, the crew of the Korean freighter began to communicate again.
The airline reported, that the crew had missed the frequency change as the airplane entered German airspace, but continued to track their filed route.
Source: the aviation herald
looks a lot, maybe a typing error ?
Re: Incident: Korean Airlines B744 over Germany on Feb 20th 2009
The crew was taking a long nap?
Re: Incident: Korean Airlines B744 over Germany on Feb 20th 2009
The airplane was "losscom" from Greece to Germany over a distance of more than 800nm.
Re: Incident: Korean Airlines B744 over Germany on Feb 20th 2009
ok,Marten wrote:The airplane was "losscom" from Greece to Germany over a distance of more than 800nm.
sorry if I don't understand well, but if the flight was EBBR-RKSI maybe it's from Germany to Greece.
Really surprising though, no coms for more than one hour over Europe and noone in the cockpits seems to worry about it.
Re: Incident: Korean Airlines B744 over Germany on Feb 20th 2009
crew might have been lucky, I can imagine some other regions of the world might not have waited 100 minutes patiently for the crew to wake up again , some might have sent their fighters earlier and and not just for watching ...
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Re: Incident: Korean Airlines B744 over Germany on Feb 20th 2009
The Koreans especially should know that the military can act sometimes very aggressie on strange behaviour.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air ... Flight_007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air ... Flight_007
Re: Incident: Korean Airlines B744 over Germany on Feb 20th 2009
and a less known incident in russian airspace :regi wrote:The Koreans especially should know that the military can act sometimes very aggressie on strange behaviour.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air ... Flight_007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air ... Flight_902