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American reroutes Asia flights to avoid Russian airspace

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American Airlines has rerouted three flights to Asia due to "overflight concerns" as tensions between the USA and Russia rise. Flights between Chicago O'Hare and Beijing, and Dallas/Fort Worth and both Beijing and Hong Kong have been rerouted due to the concerns, a memo sent to pilots states. (www.flightglobal.com) More...

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AlexMolyavko
Alexandr Molyavko 4
What about Iran Air 655?
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ecne
ecne 1
What about it?
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bizprop
Roy Troughton 2
Good move by American. Russians or their proxies have a history of shooting down civilian airliners. Korean 007 in 1983 and Malaysia 17 in 2014 spring to mind.
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herdy34
Jon Herd 1
The Americans shot down a civvie too. Iran Air 655.

Why didn’t that one spring to your mind?
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ecne
ecne 1
Because the russian government still keeps spreading deliberate lies and obstructing the judgement regarding MH17
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AlexMolyavko
Alexandr Molyavko 1
American govt fed the public quite a heap of bull about Iran Air 655 too
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