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Wednesday, October 9, 2024
From the Liveblog of
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Air France opens internal probe after plane flew over Iraq during Iranian attack on Israel
An Air France Airbus A320 approaches for landing in Lisbon at sunrise, October 10, 2023. (AP/Armando Franca)
Air France says it has opened an internal investigation after one of its planes flew over Iraq on October 1 during an Iranian missile attack on Israel.
The company says flight AF662 from Paris to Dubai was traveling at the time of the attack through a special corridor used by all airlines in southern Iraq and 15 minutes later it left the country’s airspace, which was not closed to airplane traffic until 1756 GMT.
“Without waiting for instructions from the Iraqi authorities, Air France has decided to suspend overflight of the country’s airspace by its aircraft from 1700 GMT,” the airline says. “An internal investigation has been launched into this event.”
