Wrong Identify Friend or Foe (IFF) coding by the French Airline's Airbus 343 aircraft which was on it way from Paris to Bangkok and was entering India after flying over Lahore in Pakistan.
"Taking prompt action after our radars detected an unknown aircraft over our territory, we scrambled two of our MiG 29 air defence fighter jets from Adampur air base to intercept the aircraft at around 0610 hours in the morning, as it had switched on a wrong IFF code," IAF officials said in New Delhi.
"The mission was aborted soon after the fighters took off as the French aircraft had switched over to the right codes," they added. IFF codes are meant to help the ground-based radars to automatically differentiate between friendly and enemy aircraft.
Great Job Done IAF!!!
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