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How scary is this? Makes you wonder about flying to Europe via the middle east – if you could. The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) on Thursday issued a warning that civilian passenger aircraft flying through Iranian airspace may be at risk from accidental targeting by the country’s military air defense systems.

It said, “poor civil and military coordination” could potentially lead to misidentification of commercial jets as hostile objects. The EASA warning, reported in Simple Flying, comes just days after Iran officially admitted that the tragic crash of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 was caused by an operator forgetting to adjust a radar system.

Part of an Iranian defense unit, the unnamed person forgot to realign the north direction after moving to a new position.

Edited by Ian McIntosh