Growing list of airline no-go zones

Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula has become the latest addition to a list of no-go zones for commercial airlines amid fears that the crash of a Russian passenger jet was caused by a bomb

U.S. and UK security sources suggest bomb could have brought down Metrojet Airbus A321 as it left Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh

Dnepropetrovsk

(eastern Ukraine)

Simferopol

(Crimea)

Afghanistan

Sinai Peninsula

Flights restricted

by FAA at or below

8,000m (26,000ft)

Syria

Iran

Libya

Iraq

Egypt

Mali

South

Sudan

Yemen

Somalia

AIRSPACE

RESTRICTIONS

Imposed by U.S.

Federal Aviation

Administration (FAA)

As of Oct 14, 2015

D.R.

Congo

Kenya

North

Korea

Airspace

prohibited

Airspace

restricted

(security warning

or altitude limit)

South Korea

Sources: FAA, wire agencies

Growing list of airline no-go zones

Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula has become the latest addition to a list of no-go zones for commercial airlines amid fears that the crash of a Russian passenger jet was caused by a bomb

U.S. and UK security sources suggest bomb could have brought down Metrojet Airbus A321 as it left Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh

Dnepropetrovsk

(eastern Ukraine)

Simferopol

(Crimea)

Afghanistan

Sinai, Egypt

Flights restricted

by FAA at or below

8,000m (26,000ft)

Syria

Iran

Libya

Iraq

South

Sudan

Mali

Yemen

Somalia

AIRSPACE

RESTRICTIONS

Imposed by U.S.

Federal Aviation

Administration

(FAA)

D.R.

Congo

North

Korea

Kenya

Airspace

prohibited

Restricted

(security warning

or altitude limit)

South Korea

Sources: FAA, wire agencies

Growing list of airline no-go zones

Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula has become the latest addition to a list of no-go zones for commercial airlines amid fears that the crash of a Russian passenger jet was caused by a bomb

U.S. and UK security sources suggest bomb could have brought down Metrojet Airbus A321 as it left Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh

Crimea

Sinai, Egypt

Flights restricted

by FAA at or

below 8,000m

Eastern Ukraine

Afghanistan

Syria

Iran

Libya

Iraq

Yemen

Somalia

Mali

Kenya

North Korea

South

Sudan

D.R.

Congo

AIRSPACE

RESTRICTIONS

Imposed by U.S. Federal Aviation

Administration (FAA)

South Korea

Airspace prohibited

Restricted (security warning

or altitude limit)

Sources: FAA,

wire agencies