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"National aviation authorities are reporting an increased risk to flight operation safety due to potential terrorist attacks in Pakistan,” the EASA said.
The European air safety agency recommended planes not to fly below 24,000 feet in the latest safety information bulletin issued on their website.
"The Agency draws the aviation community's attention to information... That indicate the existence of an increased risk to the safety of international civil flights and airspace restrictions implemented as a consequence," it added.
The agency recommended that all operators should exercise "extreme caution if planning to fly into, out of, within or above Pakistan airspace and to monitor all relevant information, including NOTAMs (Notice to Airmen).”
The action of the agency, which is the EU authority for air safety, follows a circular from French Aeronautical Information Service (SIA) which had said that from January 17, 2015, and until further notice, French airliners are to ensure that their aircraft maintain at all times a flight level equal to or above 24,000 feet in the airspace of Pakistan.
EASA's works include the strategy and safety management, the certification of aviation products and the oversight of approved organisations and EU member states.
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@Shakil:
"The whole exercise of these advisories to undermine every country thats not in the west or western block!" . TTP has tried to shoot down passenger planes at least twice and your in the middle of what amts to a major civil war .... but you think the warning is just another Western plot. Good example of bias getting in the way of common sense.
Sher Bano sher!!
Pakistan army and the drone flights are the factors, not the so called terrorists? We are being advised not to travel to Pakistan or even flyover Pakistan! Even a school child knows that the dornes do not have any mechanism to stay clear of the passenger aircrafts.
Rex Minor
There needs to be comprehensive deweaponisation of Pakistan.
Only the Army and Police should have weapons.
What a Shameful news! The so-called powerful Security Forces, Nawaz Government and Establishment aren't even able to properly protect airliners flying thousands of kilometers above Pakistan, what an International Joke these corrupt elite have made the nation.
Yea right, last plane was attacked in air well within European Air Space! Ukraine! Not Pakistan
The whole exercise of these advisories to undermine every country thats not in the west or western block!
All this brands Pakistan into a feared terror country for the world.