Parisians alarmed by sonic boom by warplane
media captionThe sonic boom was heard all over Paris and surrounding areas A French military plane broke the sound barrier and startled Parisians after it was scrambled to aid two commercial aircraft which had lost radio contact. Players at the French Open Grand Slam tennis tournament paused play in astonishment. People in Paris have been on edge following last week’s knife attack, deemed a terrorist act by authorities. This time French police hastened to urge residents fearful of an explosion not to call emergency services. “A Rafale, carrying out an intervention to assist an...
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