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Old 28th Oct 2010, 17:25
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crewmeal
 
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It seems that the crew of a UK-registered aircraft lost situational awareness and entered militarily-sensitive airspace.
How do you know that? were you there? How do you know that Egyptian ATC wouldn't allow the a/c to turn on a suitable heading because of traffic in the area? How do you know that the Flight crew hadn't noticed that they were approaching Israeli airspace and told the Egyptians? There are a number of reasons that the aircraft 'was' in that air space.

For info - when I've flown from AMM to LHR with BMI or using TK to IST departure from rny 24 has always been followed by an immediate right turn and into Syrian airspace before a left turn into the Med. No going over the Golden Temple in Jerusalem. A similar approach is required for landing into AMM.
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