NATO Works With ATC As Silent Flights Prompt Fighter Jet Scrambles

Tony Osborne January 20, 2020
Belgian aircraft
On a commercial flight, this would be a worrying sight. NATO and Eurocontrol are working to reduce scrambles prompted by uncommunicative aircraft.
Credit: Michael Moors/Belgian Air Force
NATO and Eurocontrol air traffic management are working to reduce the number of incidents in which fighters are scrambled in response to a lack of communications from commercial aircraft. The alliance recorded nearly 500 so-called Comloss incidents within European airspace in 2019. Although the...
Tony Osborne

Based in London, Tony covers European defense programs. Prior to joining Aviation Week in November 2012, Tony was at Shephard Media Group where he was deputy editor for Rotorhub and Defence Helicopter magazines.

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