Budapest, Hungary – Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai has asked ministers to provide immediate information concerning a press report about a recent flight by Israeli aircraft to Hungary, government spokesman Domokos Szollar told MTI on Thursday.
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The government spokesman said Bajnai expect immediate information from the ministers of foreign affairs, defence and transport.
Magyar Nemzet daily, quoting a source without naming it, carried a report with accompanying photographs that two Israeli reconnaissance planes with the appearance of civilian craft had crossed Hungary’s airspace on Wednesday.
The paper said that two planes of the Israel Air and Space Force (IASF) approached the runway of Budapest’s international Ferihegy Airport twice but continued their flight without landing.
Israeli Ambassador Aliza Bin-Noun told MTI that the aircraft were not spy planes but performing routine tasks the kind of which had taken place on previous occasions, too.
The planes had received permission from the National Transport Authority (NKH) to perform their usual routine tasks. As usual, Hungary’s Foreign Ministry was also involved in the official procedure, she said.
The ambassador said she had not been informed about the details of the mission, including its nature, purpose and exact date. In such cases, she said, the embassy’s task is limited to asking permissions from the authorities.
In addition to Budapest, the routine mission also covered Varna in Bulgaria, Bin-Noun said.
The ambassador said that it was no accident that the news had appeared in [right-leaning] Magyar Nemzet, and that enemies of Israel could be behind the story.
NKH communication official Aliz Szabo told MTI that the authority issued the transit licence for the Israeli planes under preliminary consultation with the Foreign Ministry, “in line with the law on air traffic,” Szabo told MTI.
The authority, however, declined to answer questions pertaining to the exact purpose of the mission, the type of aircraft, the departure and the destination of the flights, and whether they had landed in Hungary or carried passengers.
here we go again. why is israel always in the headlines? is is possible that media bias against israel exists?
Israel is an item, but dont push it too much..
If all the world will turn against us.. well ther is a limit for every strenght i gess..
And if something bad will happen to this state, If Syria, Iran and maybe more countries will reach their goal – then how do you all react ??
Excuse my ignorance, but what kind of routine flight program involves Israeli military aircraft flying over Hungary?
its an exersize mission, Its a training for an Iran mission
🙂 And now wait for the chief of budapest police talking, talking and talking, night after !
May our hair will not fall in front of the boredom…
Yoy ishternem
Many arabs find Israel and the IAF (israeli air force) the last limit between bad and good.
Do you imagine a world with a small group that rules a country like Iran and has nuclear weapon ?? the world will not be the same…
No 6. You, have a death wish .Leave me out of this .
lets say may the coolness will bless us all..
and this is from some1 whos m lang is hebrew..
NO. 13. What’s wrong with your brainwaves .)))
What is real power ? Tons of weapons ? Loud mouth ?
Or having highly trained agents everywhere who can take out
anyone you wish ? Any enemy leader or important person you
wish ? Everywhere. Almost anytime. Having secret agreements
with almost any western nation concerning secret service and
having powerful reconnaissance units that can penetrate almost
any wall of secrecy ?
Is that power ? Who knows ?
I bet if you take a map and count the mileage from Eretz Yisrael to Budapest and back it equals a flight to Iran and back. I am glad they are training. The crew needs to know how it feels to be cramped up in a plane and perform the tasks they need to wipe out Iran’s facilities. May HKBH bless the IAF Pilots and Crew. Amen.