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How is this fundamentally different from the U-2 incident? The precedent is already set: a nation has sovereign rights over its airspace

• arethuza 4y ago
  Interestingly enough there doesn't seem to be an agree vertical extent as to where "airspace" stops: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airspace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airspace I don't see how this would set a precedent - it was over the US and they shot it down, seems pretty clear cut to me.
  • ceejayoz 4y ago
    > Interestingly enough there doesn't seem to be an agree vertical extent as to where "airspace" stops... I suspect you'll get pretty universal agreement that 60-80k feet isn't that limit, though.
  • manuelmoreale 4y ago
    > Interestingly enough there doesn't seem to be an agree vertical extent as to where "airspace" stops But there is a somewhat shared definition of where space start in the Kármán line at 100km of altitude so it should follow that the vertical airspace stops where space sparts? I might be completely wrong though.