Transport Canada says it’s launching a assessment of a Russian airline after one among its planes allegedly violated a ban on coming into Canadian airspace simply hours after it was imposed.
“We're conscious that Aeroflot flight 111 violated the prohibition put in place earlier at the moment on Russian flights utilizing Canadian airspace,” Transport Canada wrote in a tweet.
“We're launching a assessment of the conduct of Aeroflot and the impartial air navigation service supplier, NAVCAN, main as much as this violation. We is not going to hesitate to take acceptable enforcement motion and different measures to stop future violations.”
Aeroflot flight 111 departed Miami at 2:29 p.m. native time Sunday on its solution to Moscow and seems to have flown over elements of New Brunswick, Quebec and Labrador, in accordance the flight monitoring web site FlightAware.
On Sunday morning, Transport Minister Omar Alghabra introduced that Canada’s airspace can be closed to all Russian plane operators.
"We are going to maintain Russia accountable for its unprovoked assaults in opposition to Ukraine," he wrote in a tweet.
Aeroflot usually operates a number of flights per day by means of Canadian airspace en path to locations in the US and elsewhere.
With information from CTVNews.ca author Michael Lee
Prospects stand by a counter as a number of the flights of Russian airline Aeroflot had been cancelled on the airport in Prague, Czech Republic, Tuesday, July 2, 2019. (AP Photograph/Petr David Josek)