Air France A343 near Amritsar on Aug 27th 2009, loss comm

An Air France Airbus A340-300, registration F-GLZN performing flight AF-164 from Paris Charles de Gaulle (France) to Bangkok (Thailand), entered Indian Airspace near Amritsar on an official airway entry point at FL370, however without establishing contact to Air Traffic Control and sending a wrong transponder code so that the airplane showed "unidentified" on both civilian and military radar screens. The Indian Air Force dispatched fighter planes (MiG 29s) to intercept and identify the aircraft, however aborted the intercept maneouver, when the aircraft began to send the correct transponder code.
27/08/09 Simon Hradecky/The Aviation Herald

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Categories: Foreign Aug 2009, Safety Aug 2009