> If you mean to imply that Europe is somehow going to shoot down their planes if they fly over that’s obviously absurd.

Shoot down? No.

Force them down? There's precedent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident

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jojobas 7 months ago | parent | next [-]

Morales's plane was not forced down, it wasn't allowed in some airspaces and requested landing due to instrumentation issues; it also wasn't searched.

One can also fly from Israel to NY over international waters only adding some 400km to the route.

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Qem 7 months ago | parent | next [-]

You'd must pray no emergency landing is ever needed. Probably too much of a risk to take chances.

	▲	fmajid 7 months ago \| parent [-]
		Specially when half the Israeli population hates your guts (probably a higher proportion among secular Israelis who are likely over-represented among aircraft maintenance personnel) and could accidentally on purpose forget a spanner in the jet engine...

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ceejayoz 7 months ago | parent | prev [-]

> One can also fly from Israel to NY over international waters only adding some 400km to the route.

No, you can't. You'd go through either Spanish or Moroccan airspace; the strait is 7.7 nautical miles across.

	▲	tzs 7 months ago \| parent \| next [-]
		From what I've read the Strait of Gibraltar is covered by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea which guarantees ships and planes that are just traveling through to get from one area of international waters to another area of international waters the right to do so without interference.
	▲	jki275 7 months ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Definitely does not work that way.

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raxxorraxor 7 months ago | parent | prev [-]

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