Flights are avoiding Russian airspace after the Azerbaijan Airlines crash
Flights are avoiding Russian airspace after the Azerbaijan Airlines crash
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Flights are avoiding Russian airspace after the Azerbaijan Airlines crash
- An Azerbaijan Airlines flight crashed after sustaining damage over Russia, killing 38.
- The plane was likely hit by Russian air defense before the crash, BI reported Thursday.
- Several airlines, including Azerbaijan Airlines, El Al, Flydubai, and Qazaq Air, are canceling flights to Russia, citing passenger safety and risks.
Why were they not already avoiding it? This isn't the first time that a passenger plane was shot down flying in or near a war zone. Hell, it's not even the first time Russia shot one down over Ukraine. Commercial flights really should stay away from war zones.
I think the major ones already have been.
Emirates flying from Dubai to Houston takes the yolo route and flys straight north into Iran and over Russia. That was a tense return flight for me.
Because they thought that they were Putin’s homies.
Because their destination was within the Russian federation? The more egregious act was denying them the ability to perform an emergency landing on Russian soil, forcing them to fly over the Caspian Sea all while jamming their ability to access GPS .
Should be a mandatory safety law.
And its not like airliners need to do a whole lot of work routing aircraft around them. Just use the old routes from when the Soviets were kicking and you should mostly be right. China has made a bit more rules since then, but I think they are really the only other major country with weird restrictive airspace.
...or malicious autocratic countries.
Because Russia is a huge country that’s hard to avoid, especially from Europe to Asia.
It's not hard. It's expensive