Sentences with phrase «close airspace»

Massive explosions and a blaze at a military ammunition depot in central Ukraine have forced authorities to evacuate 24,000 people and close airspace over the region, officials have said.

The Arab quartet cut direct flights with Qatar and closed their airspace to Qatari aircraft.

The most common means of transmission is through aerosols generated by horses with cough; therefore, infection can spread many feet, particularly in closed airspaces.

Across the lakes region of Argentine Patagonia, the ash cloud has closed all airspace.

Not exact matches

The incident — in which Turkey said a Russian warplane violated Turkish airspace for roughly 17 seconds — comes four days after Turkey accused Russia of bombing villages in northern Syria inhabited by Syrian Turkmen and called for an immediate end to Russia's military operation close to the border.

Nuclear weapons have been used exactly twice in combat — both times by the US, and both times dropped by a propeller aircraft over largely unprotected Japanese airspace at the close of World War II.

Since closing Pakistan's airspace would hinder America's ability to defend its forces in Afghanistan, Olson, the former ambassador, said the U.S. might regard such action as a «casus belli,» or grounds for war.

Also vexing for Qatar Airways is that those nations have closed off their airspaces to flights from Qatar.

AirMap and Project Wing UTM systems successfully planned and de-conflicted flight plans within the same airspace using an open source, distributed, peer - to - peer system to perform a multitude of missions, including surveys and package delivery in close proximity.

Since closing Pakistan's airspace would hinder America's ability to defend its forces in Afghanistan, Olson, the former ambassador, said the US might regard such action as a «casus belli,» or grounds for war.

Closing one's airspace to a presidential airplane presumably entails threatening to shoot if it tries to fly over, and is pretty big news.

Twitter reports, including some from filmmaker Michael Moore, reported that police have closed off the airspace above Zuccotti Park.

The evacuated zone was extended somewhat on Saturday, but Icelandic airports remain open though airspace of 140 by 100 nautical miles above the volcano was closed.

Airspace in that area was also closed up to an altitude of 9754 metres, according to air traffic control organisation Eurocontrol.

This would open up large areas of airspace that would otherwise be closed during a volcanic eruption, which would benefit passengers by minimising disruption.

Well Florida would be a little far, and, as I heard, since a few weeks in some areas the airspace is frequently closed at weekends:-D.

It's relevant for the lack of jet streams in airspace so close to Zurich Airport.