On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 21:20:03 +1000, "The Raven"
wrote:

"David Bromage" wrote in message
. ..
The RAAF came close

"came close"

to sending a fully armed fighter jet

Which didn't even take off.

to shoot down a
light plane during last year's Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meeting.

From WLM.............which wouldn't have got there in time to do squat.


Except that it was sitting ready at Amberley on alert!

And in the loop of threat analysis based on dedicated radar
surveillance of a specific intrusion zone established around the
meeting location.

They were a tad more prepared for something other than an event
resembling a routine ATC 'unauthorised penetration of controlled
airspace by a lightie' scenario.