- Boeing 737 crashes in Iran during the missile attack: on board 177, no survivors
- Iran, Ukrainian plane crashes for technical reasons
- Iranian attack on US bases in Iraq. Trump: "Everything is ok". Iran: "80 dead"
- Iran launches offensive against the US: two bases hit in Iraq
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January 08, 2020 Several airlines have decided to avoid Iranian airspace, in a phase of very high tension between the Islamic Republic and the United States. During the night Iranian missiles hit two US military bases in Iraq in retaliation for the killing of the influential Iranian general Qasem Soleimani. And on the same night a Ukrainian Boeing crashed between Tehran and Kiev.Air France suspends overflights of Iran and Iraq
Air France has suspended until further notice "all overflights of Iranian and Iraqi airspace", a few hours after the Iranian attacks. "As a precautionary measure and as soon as the current airstrikes were announced, Air France decided to suspend all flights over Iranian and Iraqi airspace until further notice, "said an airline spokesman.
The Boeing accident
In this context of tension, a few hours later, a Ukrainian plane crashed in Iran, killing 177 people. The Ukrainian Embassy in Tehran spoke - a few hours before the events - of an accident due to an engine problem, not a terrorist action.
US FAA ban
The US Federal Aviation Administration has, of course, issued a warning for commercial aircraft, prohibiting them from "operating in the airspace of Iraq, Iran and the waters of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman". This warning has a relative impact on air traffic because major US airlines are not operating on Iran. Only United had to change the course of one of its flights.
Singapore and EVA Air
Singapore Airlines, for its part, announced today that its flights to and from Europe will no longer pass through Iranian airspace. A spokesman for EVA Air, the carrier from Taiwan, did the same.