U.S. airlines are obliged to fly over Iraq at a height of not less than 9 km
The Federal office of civil aviation USA (FAA) has banned American airlines to fly over Iraq at the height less than nine kilometers from the continuing conflict in the middle East country, the Agency.
so, the FAA has tightened before acting limits on flights over this country. Before the decision liners American airlines have been obliged to fly at least at a height of six thousand feet. Also FAA banned U.S. airlines to use the airports Sulaymaniyah and Erbil.
the proper solution FAA was released on the night of Friday, two weeks later, once in the East of Ukraine crashed the plane Malaysia Airlines. Kiev has been charged with disaster militias, but they told us that do not have the means that would shoot down the aircraft at that height. Russia believes that to investigate the collapse should the International group of experts under the auspices of the international civil aviation organization (ICAO).
The danger of security in Iraq has increased because of the intensification at the beginning of the previous month Sunni grouping " Islamic state ". The militants of the IG, who fought To the last time in the Syrian Arab Republic, in June, led the attack on the Northern and Western regions of Iraq. They were joined by Sunnis of Iraq, soldiers from the army of Saddam Hussein and small terrorist groups.