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Sweden to resume flights to Iraqi
Kurdistan after a three month break
28.11.2007
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November
28, 2007
Stockholm, Sweden, -- Swedish Radio News
reports that direct air flights from Sweden to Iraqi
Kurdistan autonomous region are about to resume
following a three month break.
Traffic was
suspended in
August, after the pilots on a Swedish airliner
reported being shot at with a rocket over Kurdistan
'northwestern Iraq'.
The attack has never been confirmed, and now the
civilian aviation authorities say they believe if
there was a rocket fired it was an isolated
incident. www.ekurd.net
Two airlines have applied for permission to resume
flights to Iraqi Kurdistan. Some 70,000 Swedes have
their roots in the area. |
Swedish
Nordic Airways |
In August, the chairman of the Sulaimaniyah
International Airport Authority, Kamaran Ahmed, said
a local investigation found
no evidence
that a missile was fired and blamed the scare on
bright lights being used on the ground. www.ekurd.net
"No plane at the Sulaimaniyah International Airport
has come under attack. This is untrue and baseless
news," its spokesman Khalid Saleh said.
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