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Sure. If aircraft are falling out of the sky, it poses a risk not only to people in the air but to those on the ground, especially in a densely-populated countr
by Reason077 8y ago
Sure. If aircraft are falling out of the sky, it poses a risk not only to people in the air but to those on the ground, especially in a densely-populated country like the UK.
- Scoundreller 8y agoOh, I get the logic, but dunno if this is common. Since the regulators are jumping the gun on these incidents before investigations are complete, it seems odd to ban overflying when 2 crashes at takeoff occurred. Though overflying could mean having to emergency land in your territory at any time.
- Reason077 8y agoI don't think it's unusual. The EU, for example, maintains a list of airlines banned from entering EU airspace because of safety deficiencies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_air_carriers_banned_in_the_European_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_air_carriers_banned_in...
- Someone1234 8y agoThe UK is surrounded by foreign airports. If the aircraft's flight plan would have taken it over the UK (e.g. Paris to Dublin, Dublin to Copenhagen) even a crash a few minutes after take-off could impact the UK. Banning it in the airspace makes it so flight plans cannot even place the aircraft there. If you're going to ban something at all, you might have well do it correctly. There's no value in half measures, or allowing loopholes.
- Scoundreller 8y agoI wonder what that means for ETOPS: do you have to exclude airspace that you cannot overfly? Though it looks like more and more countries are closing their airspace. I’m guessing some countries are waiting for some flights to takeoff so they can ground them without stranding too many of their nationals.