A terrorist attack over Italian skies? Here's what happens in real time. Flying with the...

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At the Italian Air Force base in Grosseto, there are pilots who are always on alert in case of danger of terrorism coming from the sky: as soon as the siren sounds, they have to run on board and take off. Tony is the code name of a Eurofighter pilot from the 4th wing of Grosseto. He is among those who are always on alert in case of danger of terrorism coming from the sky. When the siren sounds at the base, he is among the first who has to run on board and take off. Because it means that an aircraft has been sighted that has triggered the terrorism alert. He lives and works at the Grosseto base together with other pilots. They have a prefabricated building with a camp bed, a wardrobe and a small bathroom. The alarm sounds following a phone call from Torrejon in Spain where the CAOC (Combined Air Operation Center) is based, the NATO body that monitors European airspace. Immediate takeoff (which in technical jargon is called Scramble) is ordered if the radar detects an unidentified track or if an aircraft does not respond to the control tower. At that point, two pilots board the Eurofighters and take off in the direction of the suspicious aircraft. In March 2019, they took off so quickly that they broke the sound barrier, creating a roar similar to an explosion that was heard across much of the region. In that case, it was a French aircraft over the skies of Lombardy that had lost radio contact. In addition to the 4th Wing of Grosseto, the Italian Air Force employs the 36th Wing of Gioia del Colle and the 37th Wing of Trapani, as well as a temporary cell at the Istrana base. Once in flight, the fighters are coordinated by the Air Operations Command of Poggio Renatico in the province of Ferrara. The suspect plane is flanked by two fighters to allow visual identification of the pilot, after which it is forced to land with a series of forced maneuvers that are communicated to it either by radio or through flight maneuvers such as the so-called "wing flap", that is, repeated oscillations of the fighter with which the military order the pilot to follow it. The most sensational case occurred in 2006 with the hijacking of a Turkish Airlines plane with 113 people on board headed to Istanbul. The hijacker of the Boeing 737, a thirty-year-old Turkish man, changed course and headed for Rome. "He asked to speak to the Pope on the radio," Tony recalls. "We had to force a landing in Brindisi because he showed no signs of cooperation. But it also happened on national flights, more recently, such as the one departing from Lamezia Terme bound for Orio al Serio, where a bomb was reported on board." And what if the hijacker didn't cooperate? «There are a series of additional procedures that cannot be explained here but are generally intercepted by two defense fighters... (by Antonio Crispino / Corriere Tv). Watch the video on Corriere: https://video.corriere.it/cronaca/att...

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