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Other airlines have chosen not to fly, many airlines did fly. i completely accept that, sir. but doesnt that just show, as was seen today with tel aviv, some flying, some not, that the air routing and planning is not fit for purpose and needs to be revised? >> i think thats something that really needs to be questioned between the airlines, the international civil aviation authority and ayata on what is the specification for a safe flight corridor. so the historical standards accepted by the avia...

Safe flight corridor. again, when i found out about it, we immediately contacted our flight operation guys and said please take a look at these flight corridors. mh-17 should be a warning to everyone and id rather err on the side of caution. >> we are joined by chad myers. >> they can fly a flight plan, as long as its approved, they can go through anything they want to over ukraine. im going to take you a journey. from kuala lumpur from here going this direction, the opposite direction that mh-1...

Northern ethiopia, libya and somalia as off limits to u.s. aircraft. in iraq, u.s. passenger planes can fly but only above 20,000 feet out of range of most missiles. warnings in effect for eight other areas as well. such as syria and afghanistan. the threats include missiles and small arms fire, but airlines can fly there if they want. >> but airlines have always had to make decisions about whether particular cities are safe to operate to. >> reporter: in fact, three days after mh-17 was shot do...