Timeline for Is it safe for a commercial flight to have Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan on its flight route?
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| Jan 21, 2020 at 11:03 | comment | added | Nzall | Well, this question turned out to be eerily prophetic... | |
| Nov 2, 2016 at 2:34 | answer | added | Peter Green | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 19, 2014 at 5:23 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
| Aug 25, 2014 at 17:57 | comment | added | user1158559 | Here's a site you can use to find out which countries and war zones you'll be flying over:doesmyflightgothroughawarzone.com | |
| Jul 17, 2014 at 18:50 | comment | added | Mithun | After MH17 incident, it seems Diogo concern is right. We still don't know who fired surface to air missile or air to air missile but still shooting down commercial airlines plane, flying over +32000ft, is possible. :( RIP who were in MH17. | |
| Jun 19, 2014 at 19:10 | comment | added | David Richerby | @AndrewGrimm And one of those incidents was the US Navy shooting down an airliner at a point very close to the path taken by this flight. | |
| Jun 19, 2014 at 15:25 | comment | added | Taladris | @QuoraFeans: why would a plane from Doha to Tokyo would land in the US? | |
| Jun 19, 2014 at 14:08 | history | edited | hippietrail | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 19, 2014 at 12:14 | comment | added | Quora Feans | @AndrewGrimm: sorry copy and paste went wrong. | |
| Jun 19, 2014 at 12:13 | comment | added | Quora Feans | @DanNeely: yes, but you would be landing in a place where homosexuality is persecuted, Jewish people are considered a sort of demons, and women alone are considered a sort of stray animal. | |
| Jun 19, 2014 at 12:10 | comment | added | Golden Cuy | @QuoraFeans While I agree with a lot of what you say, (and reminds me of concerns in travel.stackexchange.com/q/16040/324 ), they'd also be somewhat true about Doha, which is where the OP is flying from. | |
| Jun 19, 2014 at 12:08 | comment | added | Golden Cuy | @QuoraFeans I think you repeated some content in your comment. | |
| Jun 19, 2014 at 11:53 | history | edited | Mark Mayo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 19, 2014 at 2:29 | comment | added | Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight | @QuoraFeans Emergency landings in places where most of the passengers don't have a visa do happen occasionally. At worst, you might end up having to spend a night in the airport while waiting for a replacement plane to arrive. | |
| Jun 19, 2014 at 1:55 | comment | added | Golden Cuy | None of the answers so far have mentioned the fact that some governments (including western democracies) have shot down civilian aircraft. | |
| Jun 19, 2014 at 1:20 | answer | added | Mark Micallef | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jun 18, 2014 at 20:04 | comment | added | Quora Feans | I'd worry more about having to land due to some emergency. And yes, I do believe that that would be a security risk. | |
| Jun 18, 2014 at 17:02 | answer | added | Phil Perry | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 18, 2014 at 16:40 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackTravel/status/479302642888224768 | ||
| Jun 18, 2014 at 15:27 | comment | added | Spehro 'speff' Pefhany | Safety was never a worry for me, but last time I flew over Iran (on Malaysian, IIRC) I was told that the Iranians often approved the flight plans at the last moment (nervousness?) so perhaps delays are more likely than other routes. | |
| Jun 18, 2014 at 15:20 | answer | added | Nzall | timeline score: 13 | |
| Jun 18, 2014 at 15:18 | answer | added | Affable Geek | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jun 18, 2014 at 13:26 | comment | added | Karlson | Snarky comments removed... | |
| Jun 18, 2014 at 13:03 | vote | accept | Diogo | ||
| Jun 18, 2014 at 12:54 | history | edited | Relaxed | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 18, 2014 at 12:48 | answer | added | Mark Mayo | timeline score: 36 | |
| Jun 18, 2014 at 12:47 | comment | added | Diogo | I'm looking flight trace over flightradar.com and the flight turn over south on reaching "East China Sea" to not flight over the North Korea territory(where is a certain not good place to flight), so probably Qatar Airways know it is safe to flight over these contries. | |
| Jun 18, 2014 at 12:45 | history | edited | Mark Mayo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 18, 2014 at 12:42 | comment | added | Kate Gregory | It's natural to feel nervous, but you understand the airline has people whose job it is to worry about this, and who are as aware of current events as the rest of us, right? It's not like they can't look at a map too. | |
| Jun 18, 2014 at 12:38 | comment | added | Aleks G | Your flight will be going at 10-11 km high at the speed of 800-900 km/h - you'll need some serious surface-to-air weaponry to even attempt to target a plane in those circumstances. | |
| Jun 18, 2014 at 12:30 | comment | added | karancan | You might be more at risk flying over volcanic territories than this :p | |
| Jun 18, 2014 at 12:11 | history | asked | Diogo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |