Ukraine vows to keep airspace open despite tensions
The country promises financial help for airlines amid fears more will follow KLM and avoid Ukraine.
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The country promises financial help for airlines amid fears more will follow KLM and avoid Ukraine.
More airlines appear to have pulled back from flying over Ukraine after a U.S. warning that Russia could invade at any time, with flight insurance issues featuring in the background, and as a major European carrier announced a stop to overflights.
In 1993, I was flying a peacekeeping team between Armenia and Azerbaijan in what was known as the “First Nagorno-Karabakh War.”
Some international officials are pushing for an investigation close to the type seen when a plane crashes or something goes technically wrong
May 27, 2021 SYDNEY/PARIS – Pressure is growing for an impartial safety probe into the forced landing of a Ryanair jet in Minsk, including a review of the plane’s black boxes — a move fraught with sensitivities over access to evidence, aviation experts said. International condemnation of the scrambling of a fighter jet and the use of what turned out to be a false bomb alert to divert the flight to Minsk and detain a dissident Belarusian journalist has focused mainly on accusations of state-sponsored hijacking and rights violations. But Europe’s aviation regulator said on Wedn...