Spain closes airspace over fears of 'Chinese missile' debris

Written By رنا السيلاوي on 2022/11/05

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

Weather of Arabia - Several airports in Spain closed their airspace, early Friday, after a Chinese missile got out of control. According to the newspaper, “Daily Mail”, flights to and from Barcelona, Tarragona, Ibiza and Ross were subjected to relegation, while a report spoke of the impact of other regions in the European country such as La Rioja, Castilla and Leon. This precautionary measure was taken for the safety of navigation over a period of forty minutes, while some expectations spoke of the possibility of affecting the Ibiza region for a period of about three hours. Spanish airspace was later reopened, naturally, while it is not yet clear how many flights have been affected, or will be affected by the decision caused by the Chinese missile problem. In the Murcia region, a flight to the British capital, London, was delayed by about an hour, while the situation is back to normal. "Due to the risks associated with the passage of a space object in the airspace of Spain, all flights were subject to restrictions, between 9 and 38 minutes and 10 and 18 minutes in the morning," a spokesman for the Civil Protection Agency in Catalonia said early Friday. The European Union's Space Monitoring and Tracking Service said on its website that the "statistical probability of impact on Earth in populated areas" is low and the remnants are expected to land somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. But she warned that southern Italy, northern Spain and Portugal were also on the way. In the end, most of the remnants of the missile burned up while the rest fell into the Pacific Ocean about 1,000 kilometers southwest of Acapulco, Mexico. On Monday, China launched the third and final rocket as part of a three-stage space station operation. Experts explained that the body of the missile, which weighs 23 tons, later got out of control, and was on its way to falling to the ground, and it was said that Spain might be one of the possible places for the fall. Earlier, the US space agency "NASA" called on China to design rockets to disintegrate into smaller pieces upon return, as is customary internationally.

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

Browse on the official website

Spain closes airspace over fears of 'Chinese missile' debris

See More