no-fly zones
Aircraft exclusion areas
No-fly zones are airspace where aircraft are prohibited from flying, typically enforced by military power.
Governments establish them to protect civilians during conflicts, prevent enemy air operations, or secure sensitive areas: The coalition enforced a no-fly zone over northern Iraq.
Violating aircraft risk being shot down.
- airspaceRegulated overhead flight zone
- flight banOrder stopping aircraft travel
- restrictionsLimitations on action
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- aviationFlying or operating aircraft
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- IraqBaghdad, Basra, Mosul, Fallujah, Kurdistan
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