US restricts flights after Iran shoots down drone
Washington on Thursday barred American civilian flights from Tehran-controlled airspace over the Gulf and Gulf of Oman “until further notice” after Iran shot down a US military drone.
The restrictions are due to “heightened military activities and increased political tensions in the region, which present an inadvertent risk to US civil aviation operations and potential for miscalculation or misidentification,” the US Federal Aviation Administration said.
“The risk to US civil aviation is demonstrated by the Iranian surface-to-air missile shoot-down of a US unmanned aircraft system,” according to the aviation regulator.
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he is not yet making public how he will respond to the shooting down of a US drone by Iran.
“You will find out. Obviously, you know, we’re not going to be talking too much about it,” he said in the White House.
“They made a very big mistake.”
