Security & Strategic Review - November 2012 (ISSN 1741-4202)

HONDURAS-US | Radar data switched back on. On 19 November the US government resumed the delivery of radar data on suspect flights which had been suspended in late August following the shoot down of two aircraft by the Honduran air force in July [SSR-12-09]. The spokesman for the US embassy in Tegucigalpa, Stephen Posivak, said that this step had been taken after the ‘retraining’ of Honduran pilots on interception procedures and Honduras’s written confirmation that it abides by those procedures and the existing bilateral agreement that bars the use of information provided by the US to damage, destroy, incapacitate or threaten civilian aircraft in flight.’

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