A Rafale, a Mirage 2000-5 and a Fennec helicopter escorted two tourist planes lost north of Paris due to bad weather. (Photo d’illustration d’un rRfale B). PARIS Victimes du brouillard. (This is a picture of a French airplane, which was hit by a heavy fog.) The French Air Force said on Sunday that it had rescued two tourist planes from Pontarlier and Reims, which had lost their way in the cloudy and low skies north of Paris. In particular, a Rafale B, a Mirage 2000-5 and a Fennec helicopter were deployed to rescue the two pilots. The rescue operation lasted one hour and the two pilots of the DR400 and the MCR01 were able to land safely in Beauvais. The rescue of “aircraft in difficulty” is one of the missions of the Air Force, she recalls.
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