Transport Canada to review Russian carrier’s airspace breach
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Canada ordered two Russian flights out of its airspace on Monday after the plane, which recognized themselves as “humanitarian” flights, violated a ban on Russian plane, air-traffic management service stated.
Canada banned Russian planes from getting into its airspace beginning on Sunday as a part of extreme sanctions imposed on Moscow in response to its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
However the identical day, an Aeroflot flight AFL111 violated the ban after declaring itself as a humanitarian flight. Below regular circumstances, Canada’s air-traffic management service NAV CANADA doesn’t have the authority to disclaim airspace entry to an plane declaring itself a humanitarian flight.
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The opposite Russian airplane that tried to enter Canadian airspace had departed from U.S. airports.
NAV CANADA together with regulator Transport Canada has issued a directive to all air site visitors management models to disclaim all identifiable Russian airplanes entry to their airspace. The one exception to this ban is a previous approval by Transport Canada.
Incase of one other violation, NAV CANADA will direct the offending airplane to the closest airport and notify the regulator, to be instantly reported to Canada’s Air Protection Sector and the regulator.
