HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- US warship 'ordered civil plane to change
course'
Gerard
Seenan
Friday July 12, 2002 The Guardian The commander of a US warship has
been reported to aviation authorities after a British airline claimed he ordered
one of its planes from its scheduled route.
Highland Airways says the commander of the warship, which was taking part in
a Nato exercise off the west coast of Scotland, told one of its pilots he was
entering a military area and must change course.
The incident happened on Tuesday when a Highland Airways Jetstream was flying
between the Hebridean islands of Lewis and Benbecula.
The 18 seat aircraft was around 10 minutes from Benbecula when it received
the warning. He heeded it and turned off course, before air traffic controllers
intervened and brought the aircraft back on its scheduled route.
A civil aviation authority spokesman said an investigation was under way.
A spokesman for Highland Airways said: "The aircraft complied with the
[warship's] request but after consultation with air traffic control discovered
it was not in any danger and carried on to Benbecula."
This is the second incident involving the Nato exercise. Also on Tuesday, a
British frigate taking part in the exercise off the coast of Cape Wrath fired a
shell into a loch only a mile from the village of Durness.
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