Posted on 10/31/2014 12:49:18 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
“I’m instructed by Her Majesty’s government of the United Kingdom to warn you if you do not respond you will be shot down”
On Oct. 29, two RAF Typhoon fighter jets were scrambled from RAF Coningsby airbase, and flew at supersonic speeds across the UK to intercept a Latvian Antonov An-26 cargo plane that took an unauthorized detour over London causing concern to civil air traffic control.
The two Eurofighter warplanes on QRA (Quick Reaction Alert) reached the Russian-built cargo plane (registration YL-RAA) on its way to Birmingham airport and forced it to land at Stansted airport.
Interestingly, the pilot of the lead RAF Typhoon (radio callsign “L9T47″) which intercepted the Latvian plane (callsign MLA1605) radioed warning the three-man crew on board the foreign plane to listen to military instructions or risk being ‘shot down’.
You can clear hear the pilot say:
“MLA1605 from the L9T47, I’m instructed by Her Majesty’s government of the UK to warn you if you do not respond you will be shot down”
This is how real interceptions work.
What a novel concept........
Can we do that with quarantine breakers?
And not just the odd Russian MiG this time, but an Antonov sent by the mighty Latvian Luftwaffe!
***”...if you do not respond you will be shot down” ***
This is what the CEO of WALMART was told when he refused to land his aircraft on 9-11.
He landed the aircraft.
Should be border talk. Seriously, I don’t care who. They break in the back door they’re criminals. Knock on the front door and I’ll welcome you.
But break in the back door, bang you’re dead.
I’ll second that.
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