{"id":1815,"date":"2017-07-27T12:23:55","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T16:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/?p=1815"},"modified":"2017-07-27T13:08:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T17:08:04","slug":"unannounced-missile-launch-seen-from-747-cockpit-the-pics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/unannounced-missile-launch-seen-from-747-cockpit-the-pics\/","title":{"rendered":"Unannounced missile launch seen from 747 cockpit – the pics"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Korea has been the country of greatest concern<\/strong> when it comes to unannounced missile launches. Back in the day, they would advise ICAO of their plans, and a couple of fairly specific Notams could be issued to keep crews and airplanes away from the hot spots.<\/p>\n

They stopped doing that for every launch a few years back – and now, there’s pretty much zero warning. On safeairspace.net<\/a>, North Korea is still listed as Level 1 – Do Not Fly<\/a><\/strong>, primarily for this reason. Since most DPRK launches end in failure, the tracking of the missiles is anything but controlled. And therefore we worry.<\/p>\n

This week, we’ve seen images from a Cargolux 747 enroute Hong Kong to Baku, whose crew encountered an unannounced test launch of a Chinese ballistic missile, with some amazing photos.<\/p>\n

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The route of flight, and location of the launch, can be seen here:<\/p>\n

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The full gallery can be seen at this blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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