Jerusalem – An Air Canada flight had to circle Tel Aviv’s airport for 10 minutes after air traffic control said the conditions needed to be confirmed as safe for landing.
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Airline spokeswoman Isabelle Arthur said Friday Flight AC84 was advised to circle by Israeli Air Traffic Control shortly before 12 p.m. local time. She says the plane altered its course about 5 miles (8 kilometers) from Ben Gurion airport and landed 10 minutes later without incident. She did not say why.
Arthur says the return flight to Toronto departed Tel Aviv about two hours later. The airline plans to operate this evening’s flight to Tel Aviv.
Flights by Air Canada and other airlines to Tel Aviv resumed Thursday after a suspension Tuesday following a Hamas rocket strike nearby.
So maybe the FAA had good reason for its brief ban, and it wasn’t some nefarious Obama plot as claimed by the Fox News zombies in the frum velt. And as I mentioned elsewhere, the FAA has in fact banned flights over eastern Ukraine and imposed restrictions on air travel to Afghanistan and Yemen — so please, Obama haters: for once, just stop lying. And no, I’m not a liberal or a Reform Jew or a self-hater. I know calling names is the only way you know how to respond to anyone who threatens to burst your bubble of fantasy and self-delusion.
Wow. A whole 10 minutes. That would be like the express lane in the NY area.
Always better to be careful.
Reply to 1. If the ban was warranted, why did they lift it?
Obama bring the worst president since Carter had nothing to do with the flight ban, it has everything do with long list of failures. Do you need me to list them for you?
To #1 -Howard- Kindly explain why the FAA didn’t ban flights several weeks ago, to Karachi, Pakistan, after the Taliban attacked that airport twice, destroying a terminal building, caused damage to other aircraft, and killed over 100 soldiers and passengers.
To the contrary the government makes the decision if a plane is safe to land not the FAA