PARIS: The downing of an Azerbaijan Airways airplane reveals that flying over Russia poses a “excessive threat” to civilian flights amid the warfare in Ukraine, the European Union Aviation Security Company mentioned on Friday (Jan 10).
The EASA mentioned in a security bulletin that the battle “poses the chance of civil plane being unintentionally focused within the airspace of the Russian Federation, as a result of attainable civil-military coordination deficiencies, and the potential for misidentification”.
The company renewed its advice for airways to keep away from flying over western Russian airspace.
Russia has banned EU airways from flying over its airspace however these from China, Turkey, Gulf states and different nations are nonetheless authorised.
