‘Loneliest flight in sky’: Ethiopian flight in Pakan airspace amid Operation Sindoor? Viral Flightradar24 route map | Trending

A flight tracking website has claimed that during Operation Sindoor, while most airlines avoided Pakani airspace, a lone Ethiopian flight was spotted traversing the country’s near-empty skies. As per Flightradar24, Ethiopian Airlines flight ETH672, going from Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa to South Korea’s Seoul, was spotted crossing Pakan during the strike. Flightradar24 shared the route map of an Ethiopian flight that was spotted in Pakan airspace amid Operation Sindoor (representative image). (Unsplash/@iso_100) “Our most tracked flight right now: the lone flight traversing Pakan. Based on NOTAMs, Pakan has not closed its airspace, but there continue to be multiple airways unavailable to traffic,” the site wrote on their official X profile, while sharing a map. It shows flights in the airspace surrounding Pakan, with only ETH672 entering the country’s airspace and eventually crossing it. Not just Flightradar24, several X users also shared similar photos, commenting on the Ethiopian Airlines flight. “Get the hell out of dodge, Ethiopian Airlines 672,” an X user wrote and shared a screenshot similar to Flightradar24. Flightradar24 X post. (X/@flightradar24) Flightradar24 route map. (X/@flightradar24) According to the site’s data, commercial jets have cleared out of Pakani airspace, leaving it virtually empty. However, in a separate post, an X user claimed another Ethiopian Airlines flight entered Pakani airspace. Another Ethiopian flight in Pakan airspace. (X/@tanvi_madan) Ethiopian flight crossing Pakan. About Operation Sindoor:In the early hours of Wednesday, the Indian army launched the operation, striking nine “terror infrastructure” sites in Pakan and Pakan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir. In a statement, the government said that “terror attacks against India have been planned and directed” from these sites. The statement added, “Our actions have been focused, measured and non-escalatory in nature. No Pakani military facilities have been targeted. India has demonstrated considerable restraint in selection of targets and method of execution.” The operation was launched in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack, which claimed the lives of 25 Indians and one Nepali citizen. “We are living up to the commitment that those responsible for this attack will be held accountable,” the government said in the statement. Following the strike, several airports in India have been shut down. Several airports and major airlines have posted about this development on social media. The airports temporarily shut down in India include Jammu, Srinagar, Leh, Dharamshala, Bikaner, Hindon, and Amritsar.