{"id":279385,"date":"2019-06-22T06:40:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T06:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=279385"},"modified":"2019-06-22T06:40:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T06:40:57","slug":"global-airlines-reroute-flights-after-iran-downs-us-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/global-airlines-reroute-flights-after-iran-downs-us-drone\/","title":{"rendered":"Global airlines reroute flights after Iran downs US drone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: Major airlines from around the world on Friday began rerouting their flights to avoid areas around the Strait of Hormuz following Iran&#8217;s shooting down of a U.S. military surveillance drone there, as America warned commercial airliners could be mistakenly attacked. <\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration warned of a &#8220;potential for miscalculation or misidentification&#8221; in the region after an Iranian surface-to-air missile on Thursday brought down a U.S. Navy RQ-4A Global Hawk, an unmanned aircraft with a wingspan larger than a Boeing 737 jetliner and costing over $100 million. The U.S. said it made plans for limited strikes on Iran in response, but then called them off. <\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s Qantas, British Airways, Dutch carrier KLM and Germany&#8217;s Lufthansa said soon afterward that they will avoid the region as well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: Major airlines from around the world on Friday began rerouting their flights to avoid areas around the Strait of Hormuz following Iran&#8217;s shooting down of a U.S. military surveillance drone there, as America warned commercial airliners could be mistakenly attacked. The Federal Aviation Administration warned of a &#8220;potential for miscalculation or misidentification&#8221; in the region after an Iranian surface-to-air missile on Thursday brought down a U.S. Navy RQ-4A Global Hawk, an unmanned aircraft with a wingspan larger than a Boeing 737 jetliner and costing over $100 million. The U.S. said it made plans for limited strikes on Iran in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}