An aircraft entered Romania’s airspace without authorization

A small twin-engine Beechcraft aircraft, carrying two people, flew low into the airspace of Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Bulgaria on the evening of June 8. The aircraft was intercepted by the Hungarian air force, the US F-16 planes, took off from Feteşti and Romanian F-16 planes.

“We specify that the aircraft in question, which evolved in the Romanian airspace on the Oradea – Caransebeș – Drobeta Turnu Severin route, did not demonstrate hostile or dangerous behavior. At no time did the pilot of the aircraft respond to the radio interrogations or the visual signals transmitted by the intercepting military aircraft, according to the international norms”, states the Ministry of Defense.

The aircraft took off from Hungary, in the Debrecen area, around 17.30, without an approved flight plan and without having started electronic means of identification of transponder type.

The aircraft was intercepted in Hungarian airspace by two military aircraft of the Hungarian Air Force, type JAS 39 Gripen, at 17.38. The aircraft did not respond to radio interrogations or visual signals from military aircraft.

At around 17.49, the aircraft entered the Romanian airspace, in the Oradea area, accompanied by the two Hungarian military aircraft, based on the cross-border agreement between Romania and Hungary.

At 17.58 the Hungarian aircraft returned to the base, the target being taken over by two F-16 aircraft of the US Air Force, deployed on the 86th Fetești Air Base, which were on a patrol mission in the Romanian airspace.

At 18.36, the American aircraft requested the return approval on the 86th Air Base, the air police mission being taken over by two F-16 aircraft of the Romanian Air Force, taking off from the same air base.

The Romanian military aircraft intercepted the target aircraft at 18.42 and continued the interrogation and escort mission. The target aircraft, which continued to respond to radio and visual cues, intersected at around 19.00 for about two minutes with Serbian airspace in an area between Drobeta Turnu Severin and Korbovo.

Around 19.09, the target aircraft crossed into the airspace of Bulgaria. The two Romanian F-16 aircraft completed the air police mission and landed in Fetești around 19.46.

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