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The Air Force indicated this Sunday, January 19, that it had rescued two tourist planes north of Paris. (Illustrative photo of a rRfale B)
PARIS – Victims of the fog. The Air Force indicated this Sunday, January 19, that it had rescued two tourist planes coming from Pontarlier and bound for Reims, which had lost their way in the low, cloudy sky north of Paris.
The two pilots in distress were “young people » et “not qualified for instrument flying (ability to be able to fly in degraded weather conditions Editor’s note) »specified the Air and Space Force in a message on X (formerly Twitter).
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A one-hour intervention
Around noon, Sunday, “the fighter and helicopter crews coordinated to join the aircraft, in climatic conditions offering little visibility, and accompany them to a practicable landing site”the army clarified again, this time in a publication on Linkedin.
-In detail, a Rafale B, a Mirage 2000-5 and a Fennec helicopter were deployed to rescue the two pilots.
The rescue intervention lasted an hour and the two pilots of the DR400 and the MCR01 were able to land safely in Beauvais. The help of “ aircraft in difficulty » is one of the missions of the Air Force, she recalls.
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