Originally Posted by
Mazster
I'm new here so I'm going to duck after posing this question.
Wouldn't you think that after a couple of hours missing, but being detected by primary radar returns as an unidentified aircraft, one of the countries in the area would have scrambled a couple of fighters to find and shadow the "intruder"?
I suspect the primary radar returns they are building the track data with are recordings. I don't think anyone "caught" the returns real time.