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Missiles Too Close for Comfort for Airlines in Iran-Israel War
- Several missiles breached air defenses and struck residential areas across Israel on June 16, 2025, causing casualties and damage amid ongoing conflict.
- This escalation followed the Israel Defense Forces' operation against Iran's nuclear program and prior missile barrages launched by Iran in retaliation.
- The missile launches were observed from a commercial aircraft over Dubai, prompting Air France to stop flights over Iraq and open an internal investigation.
- Assaf Goren cited a complex security situation, including flight suspensions and Home Front Command instructions, as reasons for postponing the 2024 Maccabiah Games annually involving 8,000 competitors.
- The missile attacks and regional instability have disrupted Israeli sports, with the basketball season ended early and Israel's first FIBA Under-19 World Cup participation uncertain.
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Sydney Morning Herald
Missiles too close for comfort for airlines in Iran-Israel war
Pilots and passengers have been treated to dizzying, worrying sights of missile launches visible from the air even before the war between Israel and Iran kicked off.
Imagine looking out the window and seeing, along the horizon line, dozens of missiles. That's what the pilot of an airplane saw on Sunday, immortalizing a launch of ballistic missiles from Iran to Israel. The flight, according to the Republic, was from Pakistan Airlines: the plane from Braidah, Saudi Arabia, was directed to Islamabad in Pakistan. The Iranian ballistic missile article on Israel: the impressive video taken from a flight to Pakista…
The cross attacks between Iran and Israel are sounding all the alarms. Both countries, which do not share a land border, have launched waves of missiles in the last days and one of them has come to be caught by the passengers of a plane in mid-flight. As the images show, published by a passenger who was flying over Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, the passengers were on the aircraft when, from their windows and in the middle of the sunset, th…
The Western Journal
Conservative News DailyEye-Popping Video: 13 Iranian Missiles Captured Alarmingly Close by Camera on Passenger Plane
Whether they wanted one or not, the crew and passengers of a commercial aircraft got a front-row seat to an Iranian barrage of ballistic missiles against Israel. “Amazing footage showing […] The post Eye-Popping Video: 13 Iranian Missiles Captured Alarmingly Close by Camera on Passenger Plane appeared first on The Western Journal.
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