TWO GREEK FIGHTER JETS DISAPPEARED FROM THE RADAR SCREENS
Athens, 14 October 2004 (16:42 UTC+2)

According to the Greek Air Force General Staff, the two, two-member crew F16 fighter jets missing in the region of Anchialos, central Greece, sent out a signal based on which, their pilots were able to abandon them just before the aircraft disappeared from the radar screens at 3:15 pm today. If the information is correct then the four pilots were able to use the automatic ejection system.

Greek Air Force rescue crews are on their way to the region of mountain Pilio, central Greece, to look for the four missing pilots.

For the record, the two aircraft had taken off from the military airport of Anchialos on a training flight and while flying over mountain Pilio were met with low visibility conditions due to cloudiness.

http://www.mpa.gr/article.html?doc_id=486761

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Since the thread has been derrailed, just my 0.02

It’s more like a complete train wreck!
So here is more fuel to the fire.
I don’t know her nationality, but hell she can bend! :diablo: 😮 😮 :diablo:

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Roar of jets jolts Olympic truce
Greek and Turkish fighter pilots jousted over the Aegean for a second day in a row yesterday, as Athens expressed annoyance at Wednesday’s incident in which two Turkish jets penetrated deep into Greek air space to fly over the fortress island of Lemnos.

“Such behavior is not in tune with the spirit of cooperation that has already grown between our two governments, nor of course with the spirit of the Olympic Games,” Defense Minister Spilios Spiliotopoulos said of Wednesday’s violation in the northeastern Aegean, in which two Turkish F-4 fighters roared over the northeastern tip of Lemnos at a height of 500 feet.

Greek anti-aircraft missiles locked on to both Turkish planes as they entered Greek air space, while the F-4s were intercepted and chased off by Greek fighters.
Although the two countries’ fighter pilots routinely engage in simulated dogfights over the Aegean as a result of disagreements over the precise extent of Greece’s air space, the Lemnos overflight was the most serious incident of its sort in recent months. It drew an official demarche from the Foreign Ministry.

“Such behavior is by no means acceptable, and will be duly assessed at a political and operational level,” Spiliotopoulos said.

Government spokesman Theodoros Roussopoulos admitted that the overflight was “not a pleasant incident,” but stressed that Turkish violations of Greek air space have fallen 44 percent this year, compared to 2003.

Later yesterday, the Defense Ministry said a total of 12 Turkish F-16 fighters had violated Greek air space seven times in the central and northern Aegean before being chased off by Greek jets. In all cases, the intruders were caught on the radars of Greece’s air defense missile systems.

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100010_06/08/2004_45719

I wonder who actually is in charge of the Turkish Military? The government or the Generals? The right hand doesn’t appear to know what the left is doing.

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