Incident: Korean Airlines B744 over Germany on Feb 20th 2009

[Marten]

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

[Nevihta]

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

100 minutes ?
looks a lot, maybe a typing error ?

[earthman]

The crew was taking a long nap?

[Marten]

The airplane was "losscom" from Greece to Germany over a distance of more than 800nm.

[Nevihta]

The airplane was "losscom" from Greece to Germany over a distance of more than 800nm.

ok,
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.

[euroflyer]

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 ...

[regi]

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

[B737229]

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

and a less known incident in russian airspace :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air ... Flight_902