It was depicted as an incident in a blockbuster movie. A plane with flight number ETH672 departed from Addis Ababa to Korea on Wednesday, taking to the skies of a part of Asia witnessing a fresh conflict between Pakistan and India.
Since then the rest of the world has not stopped talking about this great escape as the Ethiopian Airline flight few for several hours through this heavily militarised airspace.
The airline has not yet commented on how its plane flight was able to brave the danger and reached its destination in Korea unscathed.
The flight took place against the dangerous backdrop of military confrontation between Pakistan and India, which saw a series of airstrikes by the Indian military on Pakistani targets.
As a result of the heightened risks in the past few days, many airlines were forced to abandon Pakistani airspace.
Aviation websites gave notice that much of Pakistani airspace was closed during the duration of the Ethiopian Airlines flight and they could not explain how the lone plane was able to complete this highly risky journey.
In the wake of the incident, flight tracking website Flightradar24 has been providing details of the mystery flight on its Twitter account, attracting attention from around the world.
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