The airline Air France announced this Sunday that it has suspended its flights over the Red Sea “until further notice” after the crew of a plane sighted A “high altitude luminous object” In the Sudan region, where conflict has been ongoing for eighteen months between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
As a precaution, Air France has decided to suspend flights to the Red Sea region until further notice. As a result, the itineraries of some of its flights have been amended. Depending on their location, some aircraft had to turn around and return to their departure airport (…) This decision came after suspicions that a crew had seen a luminous object at high altitude over Sudan territory, ” Has been made clear.
Air France, which has recalled that LThe safety of its customers and employees “is its absolute priority”assures that “the company closely monitors the evolution of the geopolitical situation of the areas covered and overflyable by its aircraft in order to guarantee the highest level of flight safety.”
The company made this clarification after a flight that took off this Sunday from Paris to the Madagascar capital, Antananarivo, had to turn back and return to the French capital after some media reported an attempted attack on the plane.
Additionally, company sources consulted by French channel BFM TV reported that a flight between Paris and Nairobi also had to be turned back, while Other flights and two other routes have been suspended (Mauritius and the surrounding French island of Reunion) have “operated normally, have adapted their itineraries and extended their flight schedules.”
Sudan is embroiled in civil war as a result of the hostilities These exploded in April 2023 Within the framework of the increase in tensions around the integration of the RSF within the armed forces, an important agreement signed in December 2022 to form a new civilian government and reactivate the open transition following the ouster of Omar Hassan al Bashir in 2019 Part was damaged by the October 2021 coup, in which the then transition minister, Abdalla Hamdok, was overthrown.
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