IAF fighter jets buzz US airliner
A pair of Israeli F-15s and another pair of F-16s came close to shooting down a Continental Airlines Boeing 777 flight on Wednesday afternoon.
The airliner, flying from New York to Tel Aviv, had failed to contact air traffic control as it approaches Israel.
"From the moment that we lost contact with (the jet) we treated the incident as a possible terror act," a source told Ynet News.
The situation was treated very seriously and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz were updated constantly in case they have to give the order to shoot down the jet.
Luckily contact was established when the airliner was five minutes from Tel Aviv and the 777 landed safely.
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IAF fighter jets buzz US airliner
Israel scrambles jets to escort US airliner
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