Iran did not pay attention to air traffic when launching missiles. The shots were filmed by a British Airways pilot

On Wednesday, the New York Post published disturbing footage taken from the cockpit of a British Airways civil aircraft. The footage shows that Tehran did not check whether there were any civilian aircraft in the surrounding airspace before launching the rockets.

On the footage shot near the Iranian city of Shiraz, you can see ballistic missiles heading from Iran to Israel. “All the missiles flew very close, which shows how close Iran was to provoking an international incident,” writes the NEXTA agency about the video on social networks.

On Tuesday, Iran fired more than 180 ballistic missiles at Israel. According to him, the goal was military infrastructure. Most of the missiles were destroyed by anti-missile defense systems. The massive Iranian fire claimed the only life victim, which was a Palestinian in Jericho, on whom part of one of the rockets fell.

According to the New York Post, the video was published by the pilot of a British Airways flight bound for Dubai.

It would not be the first time that the Iranian army would commit such a mistake. In January 2020, the local authorities apologized for the incident in which Tehran shot down a Ukrainian airliner with 176 people on board. He apparently accidentally launched an anti-aircraft missile at that time.

In the night after the start of the massive attack, airlines began to divert flights from the skies over Iran. “Global airlines diverted or canceled flights to regional airports including Lebanon, Israel and Kuwait on Wednesday,” FlightRadar24 reported. Aerial radar images recorded that the flights were heading in wide arcs to the north and south.

As a result of Tuesday’s attack, the European Commission and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency advised airlines to avoid the airspace between Lebanon and Israel.

Fearing an escalation of the conflict, Lufthansa has suspended all flights to Tel Aviv until October 31 and flights to Beirut until November 30. Flights to Tehran are canceled until October 14, writes The Fortune. The Dutch company KLM has suspended flights to Tel Aviv until the end of the year. Some companies have completely suspended lines to Israel and Iran.

Concerns about travel due to the escalation of the conflict, according to Reuters, knocked down shares in the tourism and airline sectors. There is concern mainly because Israel threatened a “painful response” in response to Iran’s attack.