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On Tuesday, October 1, at the time of Iranian missile launches towards Israel, an Air France flight continued its route to Dubai, flying over Iraqi soil.
Have we narrowly avoided a large-scale human and diplomatic incident? According to information from LCI, Air France flight AF662 departing from Paris Charles-de-Gaulle and bound for Dubai, flew over Iraq on the evening of October 1. At the same time, several Iranian missiles targeted Israel.
Majority of commercial flights diverted
The French airline would not have asked the crew of this aircraft to turn away. However, the majority of Air France commercial flights in the area were diverted. LCI claims that the pilots of the aircraft even “saw the missiles from the cockpit”.
If the missiles used by Iran that day were flying at a higher altitude than the planes, that suggests the plane was in the Iraqi air corridor after the projectiles were fired.
Contacted by the news channel, the company confirms, through a press release, that flight AF662 linking Paris to Dubai was indeed flying over southern Iraq when the attack on Iran began.
