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I have always been a bit shocked how airliners appear to fly in, around, above, to, and from combat zones. I suppose people who live in those areas learn to con
by ocdtrekkie 7y ago
I have always been a bit shocked how airliners appear to fly in, around, above, to, and from combat zones. I suppose people who live in those areas learn to continue about their lives, but as an American resident, where actual combat is... pretty uncommon, I can't fathom deciding to get on an airliner while missile strikes are going on in the vicinity.
- AnimalMuppet 7y agoIt costs more in fuel (and travel time) to avoid them... but when a plane gets shot down, that's really expensive.
- mytailorisrich 7y agoIn this case they may not have known as it happened during the same night. It did not happen in the vicinity of the Iranian strikes in Iraq, either: Tehran is about 900km from Baghdad. What I'm saying is that if the Iranian authorities were on such high alert for an air strike on Tehran it might have been wise to close the airspace to civilian flights instead of letting them continue to fly right in the path of ground-to-air missile batteries...