FAA prohibits US carriers from flying over Iranian airspace
The US FAA has issued an emergency order prohibiting US carriers from flying in the overwater area of Iranian-controlled airspace until further notice. The order, issued in the early hours of June 21, states that the prohibition is in place “due to heightened military activities and increased political tensions in the region”. This, it adds, presents “an inadvertent risk to US civil aviation operations and potential for miscalculation or misidentification”. June 19, an Iranian surface-to-air missile shot down a Global Hawk UAV over Kuh Mubarak, a coastal area of Iran at the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz. The FAA notes in its order that the UAV was operating “in the vicinity of civil air routes above the Gulf of Oman”. United Airlines cancelled its scheduled flight between Newark and Mumbai June 20, hours before the emergency order was issued. <br/>
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FAA prohibits US carriers from flying over Iranian airspace
The US FAA has issued an emergency order prohibiting US carriers from flying in the overwater area of Iranian-controlled airspace until further notice. The order, issued in the early hours of June 21, states that the prohibition is in place “due to heightened military activities and increased political tensions in the region”. This, it adds, presents “an inadvertent risk to US civil aviation operations and potential for miscalculation or misidentification”. June 19, an Iranian surface-to-air missile shot down a Global Hawk UAV over Kuh Mubarak, a coastal area of Iran at the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz. The FAA notes in its order that the UAV was operating “in the vicinity of civil air routes above the Gulf of Oman”. United Airlines cancelled its scheduled flight between Newark and Mumbai June 20, hours before the emergency order was issued. <br/>
