9/11 WTC1 & WTC2
21.07.2012 um 12:47@TotallySkeptic
Naja die Russen hatten schon relativ schnell jemanden dort da man ihn schon außerhalb der Grenzen beobachtet hatte. Hierin hinkt allerdings der Vergleich zu 9/11 denn normale Verkehrsflugzeuge sind nun mal keine fremden Flugzeuge ohne Überflugerlaubnis.TotallySkeptic schrieb:Bist Du der Meinung, man könnte sagen, die Russen hatten es geschafft, auch wenn sie die Jäger erst drei Stunden, nachdem Rust in den Sowjetischen Luftraum eingedrungen war, in seine unmittelbare Nähe gebracht hätten?
Meanwhile, at a radar station in Skrunda, now in the independent state of Latvia, Soviet military personnel were also tracking Rust. All foreign aircraft flying into the Soviet Union were required to get a permit and to fly along designated corridors, and Rust’s was not an approved flight. As the unidentified aircraft neared the coastline at around 2:10 p.m. Moscow time (an hour ahead of Helsinki), three missile units were put on alert.Aber wie man selber sieht sie haben ihn wieder weiterfleigen lassen weil der Pilot dachte er hätte schon ne Erlaubnis. Menschliche Fehler wie sie eben vorkommen können.
From Helsinki, Rust’s flight plan was simple: Turn to a heading of 117 degrees and hold course. As he crossed his first waypoint, the Sillamyae radio beacon near Kohtla-Jarve, on the coast of the now-independent state of Estonia, he climbed to 2,500 feet above sea level, a standard altitude for cross-country flight, which would keep him about 1,000 feet above the ground for the entire route. He trimmed the airplane out and flew straight and level. He also put on his crash helmet. “The whole time I was just sitting in the aircraft, focusing on the dials,” says Rust. “It felt like I wasn’t really doing it.”
Soviet controllers continued to monitor the unidentified airplane’s progress. Now that it was well inland, army units in the area were put on high alert and two fighter-interceptors at nearby Tapa air base were scrambled to investigate. Peering through a hole in the low clouds, one of the pilots reported seeing an airplane that looked similar to a Yak-12, a single-engine, high-wing Soviet sports airplane that from a distance looks very similar to a Cessna. The fighter pilot, or his commander on the ground, perhaps thinking the airplane must have had permission to be there, or didn’t pose any threat, decided the airplane did not require a closer inspection.
