Great Britain banned flights in its airspace airlines of eight countries

The British authorities forbade aviation companies in a number of countries to fly to the UK.

According to the representative of the British aviation department of Tony Macnalti, such measures are caused by the fact that the above states do not comply with the necessary security measures.

The published "black list" includes all airlines of equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Liberia and Tajikistan, two airlines from Sierra Leone and one of the Cameroon, Albania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

This measure was adopted after the Boeing-737 disaster of the Egyptian company Flash Air, which fell into the sea on January 3 shortly after taking off the Ash-Sheikh, Interfax reports. All 148 passengers and crew members were killed on board.