Swiss fighter jets catch Xi Jinping
Stunk in the sky: Two Swiss fighter jets catch the pilot of the Chinese ruler Xi – and it becomes acidic
The Swiss Air Force controls a Chinese state aircraft – and do not know who sits in it. That gives pretty big diplomatic trouble with China.
The incident that has become a state affair must have started, for example, via Wünnewil-Flamatt, at least high in the night sky over Bundesbern.
Data from the flight track FLIGHTRADAR24 show at 0.27 a.m. Local time on November 22, 2024: The Boeing 747 of the Air China launched in Casablanca is at traveling height to over 30,000 feet when it suddenly throttled the speed a bit.
That was the moment when two F/A-18 fighter jets of the Swiss Air Force suddenly appeared next to the Chinese state plane. The Air Force « escorted » the Chinese Jet, expresses a source. However, this was not the taste of the Chinese.
In Casablanca with Pomp by Crown Prince Moulay Hassan and the Moroccan Prime Minister, XI is welcomed to a short visit to the airport. Later the trip continues to China – among other things through Swiss airspace. In the background of the jet that the Swiss Air Force collapsed.
Because, according to sources, the 71-year-old Chinese ruler Xi Jinping was personally in the machine. The President was on the return trip from the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
The fact that the flight route led over Switzerland was due to a « technical stopover » that XI took in Casablanca in Morocco. The Chinese head of state was received with Pomp on the airfield. The red carpet was rolled out, an honorary guard was a trellis, Crown Prince Moulay Hassan and the Prime Minister showed him the honor, as pictures show. The king had his warmest greetings.
The reception that was prepared high above Switzerland hours later will have occurred to the Chinese: through the two fighter jets that appeared out of a cheerful night sky on both sides of the state Boeing. Especially since the overflight was correctly registered and approved by the Federal Office for Civil Aviation (BAZL). So he had received the so -called “Diplomatic Clearance”.
Fly route of the Chinese state aircraft from Casablanca towards China. There was an “incident” over Switzerland: the jet was checked and escorted by the Swiss Air Force. As a result, China complained – unsuccessfully, it seems.
Air Force: « Ordinary live mission »
The Swiss Air Force confirms the incident to “Switzerland at the weekend”, at least its first phase. Spokeswoman Nadine Schröder says: «It is correct that the Air Force checked a Chinese state aircraft that night. This was done as part of a normal live mission, as the Air Force performs an average of 200 times a year-a task that is performed by the respective air weapons worldwide. »
The spokeswoman continued, the spokeswoman continued, a “Diplomatic Clearance” from the Bazl, the overflight was registered and approved. “So it was a routine check to be a sample that the Air Force carries out again and again. That is one of her standard tasks, »emphasizes spokeswoman Schröder.
Accordingly, the Air Force decided to undergo the Chinese state aircraft of a sample and see whether the information stored in the overflight approval was right. To check whether the reported aircraft type and the license plate matched the vehicle that flew across the country. The two F/A-18 fight jets rose in Payerne.
« Extensive guide » XI came in Merz’s « Traffic Control »
The Air Force spokeswoman explains the procedure as follows: « In the sense of a traffic control, the Air Force’s fighter aircraft check whether it is actually the plane that was registered. »
The Air Force carries out the controls regardless of who sits in the machines. Because: « The Air Force does not have passenger lists, so she didn’t know who was on the plane, » says spokeswoman Schröder.
For the Air Force, the matter was ticked off after the use of the F/A-18 fight jets. The spokeswoman: « Whether this review then had an aftermath was evident. »
The Chinese did what was a stinky act for the Air Force.
Because according to information from “Switzerland at the weekend”, the theater really started.
The Chinese apparently demanded an apology from a high Swiss side. But Defense Minister Viola Amherd, Federal President in 2024, did not want to go to her knees before Beijing. The Chinese would not have received any excuse from the current Federal President Karin Keller-Sutter.
The diplomats in the Ignazio Cassis’ broadcast would have had to spend a lot of energy and several attempts for appeasement of appeasement in order to reasonably appease the Chinese.
Army denied conversation with the Chinese Chargé
Addendum. The day after the article was switched off, the army reported with a « correction ». The assertion contained in the original version of the article that « the business authority ad interim of the Chinese embassy with the commandant of the Air Force had been on the phone and was treated by it » is wrong: « The group defense states that the Commander of the Air Force, divisional Peter Merz, has never had contact with the Chinese message – neither with the Chinese official nor with another Employees. «
