Why was the Ukrainian airliner mistakenly shot down near Tehran by Iranian force...
MONTREAL/KUALA LUMPUR/PARIS - Why was the Ukrainian airliner mistakenly shot down near Tehran by Iranian forces last week for the loss of 176 lives even allowed to take off from a country that had just fired missiles towards its neighbour? And why didn’t the airline just delay or cancel the flight?
While air travel is global, and guided by streams of instantaneous electronic data, control over each country’s airspace remains entirely local and subject to the pace of politics. MH17 led the United Nations’ aviation arm, the International Civil Aviation Organization , to launch a conflict zone website where countries could share information on potential risks around the world so that airlines could avoid those regions. Despite the deaths of 298 people, it foundered after some countries saw a threat to their sovereignty and wanted a 72-hour window to respond, rendering it ineffective.Those sensitivities are not new.
Still, ICAO said Dutch recommendations after MH17 helped result in amendments to six annexes to the 1944 Chicago Convention, the basic global agreement on modern aviation. An Iranian commander said on Saturday that the Iranian military, which had been ordered to retaliate against U.S. troops in Iraq for the killing of an top Iranian commander by a U.S. drone, had requested a no-fly zone for the Tehran area but had been refused. He did not say why or by whom, and Iran has not commented on its decision to keep Tehran airport open.
Three days after the U.S. drone strike on Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, and a day before Iran’s retaliatory strikes, there were around 1,000 flights over Iran and Iraq, the International Air Transport Association said.
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