US fighter pilots navigate crowded Mideast airspace
U.S. Navy aviators flying off the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman said one of the newest difficulties they encounter while flying in the Gulf is navigating increasingly crowded airspace in a region that has experienced the world's fastest airline growth in recent years.
Cmdr. Bill Sigler, head of an F/A-18 fighter jet squadron on the USS Truman, estimated that planes flying off the carrier headed north over the Persian Gulf to Iraq were confined to one-fifth of the airspace available the last time he was in the region in 2002 because of increased airline traffic.
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