Air France diverts to Syria and asks passengers for cash.
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Story now confrmed by several credible sources (at least the DAM diversion part). Being rather intimately familiar with ops into he region, I must say I'm rather bewildered by the decision to divert to DAM - I would only have done that in a full emergency given present conditions there.
Larnaca is only a litte over 200 Kms from Beirut, and everyone flying into the region knows it as the last friendly port of call. I smell more in this story then a simple dversion. Did they linger over Beirut for too long and they did not even have reserves left for the hop back to LCA ? (That sounds too reckless to even contemplate...) Was LCA closed for some reason (sometimes it can have fog at dawn even in mid-summer) ?
In any case, will be interesting to hear some factual information if it ever gets out.
Larnaca is only a litte over 200 Kms from Beirut, and everyone flying into the region knows it as the last friendly port of call. I smell more in this story then a simple dversion. Did they linger over Beirut for too long and they did not even have reserves left for the hop back to LCA ? (That sounds too reckless to even contemplate...) Was LCA closed for some reason (sometimes it can have fog at dawn even in mid-summer) ?
In any case, will be interesting to hear some factual information if it ever gets out.
