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WHBM
Likewise the heavy traffic between Europe and South-East Asia transits Afghanistan; any rebel missiles are understood to have a maximum altitude of about 20,000 feet and the flights keep well above that, along with a series of special procedures
She hasn't mentioned it for a few years but when my grandfather was based in Jakarta my mother said their commercial flights out there got a military escort across some part of the middle east. It was before I was born so I'm guessing it was during the early years of the Iran-Iraq War, or perhaps after the Soviet invasion.