(I'll bet this clown is revising his resume right about now...)

Sydney Morning Herald, June 29 2003

A Swiss air traffic controller jokingly put an "al-Qaeda" label on a French helicopter that strayed into restricted air space during the Group of Eight summit, nearly leading to a shooting down of it by the French air force.

The controller put the tag on his radar screen during the June meeting in Evian, France, on Lake Geneva. Spokesman for air traffic firm Skyguide Patrick Herr confirmed that the French military picked up the label on its own radar and immediately scrambled Mirage fighter jets. Only at the last moment did the Mirage pilots realise that it was a French transportation helicopter.

The controller has been suspended during an inquiry.