An Irish air traffic controller guided a United States Air Force bomber on its way to attack Iran through Irish-controlled airspace.
In an audio recording obtained by The Ditch the AirNav Ireland staff member based near Shannon Airport assists the bomber’s flight crew by radio.
The plane passed a few hundred kilometres off the state’s southern coast this Tuesday.
Later that day US Rockwell B-1B Lancer heavy bombers were photographed at Royal Air Force Fairford in England – being loaded with precision-guided bombs.
They’d arrived from a South Dakota air base.
The Irish state-assisted B-1B bomber left the British airbase yesterday morning to drop bombs on Iran as part of Operation Epic Fury. It was later reported that the attacks included strikes on Iran’s Kharg Island.
AirNav Ireland staff in Ballygireen, county Clare manage high frequency radio communications in the Shanwick Oceanic Control area.
The US and Israel have killed more than 1,200 Iranian people since they launched their illegal war last month which has included an US military strike on a school.
AirNav Ireland has been contacted for comment.
