Pilots of an Air France flight saw the “missiles” sent to Israel from their cockpit

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– When requested, the airline assured to permanently monitor the geopolitical situation of the territories served or through which their planes pass.

These airline pilots had to experience a very scary experience. Tuesday, October 1, reminds TF1 Infomore than 180 missiles were fired from Iran towards Israel, flying over Iraq. As a security measure, most commercial flights in the area had been diverted. However, a flight escaped this surveillance and could have created a major diplomatic and military incident. The vol Air France AF662departing from Paris Charles-de-Gaulle and bound for Dubai, was to fly over Iraqi territory.

But the French company would not, according to information from TF1 Info, didn’t even ask the crew of the aircraft to turn away. Strange, since they, at the same time, did it for a Paris-Bombay flight, which entered Iraqi space and which was forced to turn around. The pilots of flight AF662 thus “saw the missiles from the cockpit”. Fortunately, the projectiles used by Iran traveled at a altitude higher than that of airplanes. This corroborates the hypothesis that the plane was indeed in the corridor Iraqi flight.

Air France confirms the information

When requested, the airline ensured follow permanently the geopolitical situation of the territories served or through which their planes pass, and this “in order to ensure the highest level of flight safety and security”. Management claims to have had information, upstreamwhich allowed him to identify an Iranian attack on Israel. She would thus have suspended the flight over the country’s airspace by its planes from 7 p.m.

“The company’s aircraft were already avoiding Israeli, Lebanese and Iranian airspace. Overflight of Iraqi airspace was limited to a specific corridor used by all airlines.justified Air France, also confirming the veracity of the information from TF1 Info. The aircraft left the country’s airspace less than a quarter of an hour laterbefore Iraqi airspace was “officially closed by local authorities until 17:56 GMT” (7:56 p.m. French time).