“This decision was made after the crew thought that a luminous object was flying over Sudan at a high altitude,” the press service added. The air carrier informed passengers that the routes of some flights had been changed and planes already en route returned to their departure airports . In particular, a plane heading from Paris to the capital of Madagascar, Antananarivo, returned to its place of departure.
In October, Air France announced it had launched an internal investigation into its flight over Iraq, which temporarily closed its airspace during Iran's October 1 missile attack on Israel.