{"id":94153,"date":"2022-02-24T16:52:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T05:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/?p=94153"},"modified":"2022-02-24T16:52:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T05:52:48","slug":"civil-aircraft-suspended-from-ukraine-airspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/2022\/02\/civil-aircraft-suspended-from-ukraine-airspace\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil aircraft \u2018suspended\u2019 from Ukraine airspace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-post-94153 wp-image-90203 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Northrop-Grumman-test-japan-RQ-4B-1024x578.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Northrop-Grumman-test-japan-RQ-4B-770x420.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Northrop-Grumman-test-japan-RQ-4B-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Northrop-Grumman-test-japan-RQ-4B-150x85.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Northrop-Grumman-test-japan-RQ-4B-768x433.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Northrop-Grumman-test-japan-RQ-4B-770x420.jpeg 1170w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All flights by civil aircraft have been restricted inside Ukraine due to a \u201cpotential hazard\u201d, according to a notice to airmen from authorities.<\/p>\n<p>As of 3:15 UTC time on Thursday, Ukraine airspace was \u201ccompletely empty\u201d, according to tracking site Flightradar24 after airlines scrambled to find alternate routes to dodge the war-torn nation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">24 February 2022 03:15 UTC time &#8211; Ukraine airspace is now completely empty. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UIEgcapqlj\">pic.twitter.com\/UIEgcapqlj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/flightradar24\/status\/1496686611324497924?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The NOTAM was issued at 0156 GMT on Thursday, and is set to expire at 2359 GMT, with no further notice.<\/p>\n<p>Flights are restricted within cities of Ukraine such as Kyiv, Dnipro, Lviv, Odesa, Simferopol FIR, Kyiv UIR, according to the notice.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s State Enterprise of Air Traffic Services said the \u201cprovision of air traffic services to civilian users of the airspace of Ukraine is suspended\u201d, due to the \u201chigh risk\u201d zone.<\/p>\n<p>The move came immediately after Russia issued a ban on civilian air traffic over eastern Ukraine, including also closing down several airports amid the rising fears of invasion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe situation in Ukraine has now become a larger conflict that is currently developing,\u201d said Safe Airspace on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The website provides conflict zone and risk database warnings, birthed from the Malaysian Airlines MH17 aircraft disaster when operators had not been sufficiently warned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegardless of the actual movements of Russian forces into Ukraine, the level of tension and uncertainty in Ukraine is now extreme,\u201d the website stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis itself gives rise to significant risk to civil aviation. For this reason, and based on OPSGROUP member discussions, we assess Ukraine as Level 1 &#8211; Do Not Fly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the US Federal Aviation Administration banned all US operators from overflying the eastern part of Dnipro, among other states which have enforced similar prohibitions, but Safe Airspace believes this will change soon.<\/p>\n<p>Following the ban, an Israeli El Al Boeing 787 Dreamliner coming from Tel Aviv to Toronto was forced to turn out of Ukrainian airspace before detouring over Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland, according to the tracking site.<\/p>\n<p>One aircraft was spotted still over Ukraine, a US RQ-4B Global Hawk surveillance plane for NATO, but it has since moved to Romanian airspace now, allegedly returning to its home base in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest update, Russia\u2019s <em>RIA<\/em> newspaper said that President Vladmir Putin authorised a special military operation in Ukraine\u2019s Donbas region, and there have been several reports since of explosions.<\/p>\n<p>The potential for war is a long time coming as Putin has resisted Ukraine\u2019s ties with European institutions, including NATO and the EU, and has claimed the nation was not a real state.<\/p>\n<p>Nations from across the globe, including the US, UK, Australia and others have condemned Russia\u2019s actions, <a href=\"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/2022\/02\/us-deploys-more-fighter-jets-to-defend-ukraine\/\">pledging to defend Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has made an emotional appeal towards Russia to not start a war but says his invitation for talks with Putin have been ignored.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2014, when Russia first invaded the country and infiltrated regions with rebels, their relations have continued to dwindle, and the war has claimed over 14,000 lives so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flights are restricted within cities of Ukraine such as Kyiv, Dnipro, Lviv, Odesa, Simferopol FIR, Kyiv UIR, according to the notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3418,"featured_media":90203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94156,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94153\/revisions\/94156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}