From AP:
BERLIN (AP) – Air France says a plane carrying 495 passengers and 22 crew was diverted on its way from Shanghai to Paris after Russia announced at short notice that part of its airspace was closed for a military exercise.
The company said flight AF111 was forced to land in Hamburg, Germany, early Wednesday to refuel because the plane had too little fuel on board to complete the flight following its detour.
Hamburg Airport confirmed that the plane landed shortly after 6 a.m. (0500 GMT) and was able to take off for Paris again after an hour and a half.
It wasn’t immediately clear if Russia’s military exercise was linked to the increased troop activity on its western border with Ukraine.
Is this something exceptional (I guess so) ?
Looking at the flight map
it would seem that it certainly spent quite some time in Russian airspace... Are we to understand that they where actually forbidden to leave it ? Or is this not the actual flightpath ?