Jan 16 (Reuters) – The European Union’s aviation regulator urged the bloc’s airlines to avoid flying in Iran‘s airspace in an advisory issued on Friday.
“The presence and possible use of a wide range of weapons and air-defence systems, combined with unpredictable state responses …. creates a high risk to civil flights operating at all altitudes and flight levels.” the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) said in a bulletin on potential conflict zones.
With ongoing tensions and the potential for U.S. military action, which has placed Iranian air defence forces on a heightened state of alert, there is an increased likelihood of misidentification within Iranian airspace, the advisory said.
(Reporting by Gursimran Kaur. Editing by Mark Potter)
