India’s Stray Missile Put Dozens of Passenger Jets at Risk
- Pakistan readied retaliation after missile landed in territory
- Missiles have previously shot down commercial planes elsewhere
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A missile that was accidentally launched out of India last week fired into the flight path of dozens of commercial jets flying in the region at the same time.
Several planes passed through the direct trajectory of the missile that day, which flew from the Indian garrison town of Ambala and ended up in Mian Channu in Eastern Pakistan. They included a Flydubai jet heading to Dubai from Sialkot, an IndiGo plane going from Srinagar to Mumbai and an Airblue Ltd. flight from Lahore to Riyadh. All crossed the missile’s trajectory within an hour of its accidental launch, data from flight-tracking application Flightradar24 show.