Amid a climate of tension following the attacks in Paris and the armed attack of a Mali hotel popular with foreigners, a French flight to the US deflected right route to return to Paris .
A Boeing 777-200 of Air France from Paris to San Francisco made a U-turn while flying over the Channel, as revealed air traffic control radars. It made several loops, before returning to France less than an hour after takeoff. The pilot did not report an emergency, it remains unclear why this change of route.
However, the passengers of the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris have been warned that all flights between Paris and the United States were canceled following the attack by an armed commando in a hotel in Mali on Friday 20 November. Some 12 members of the French airline staff there were held hostage before being evacuated. Moreover, the flight that would link Paris to Bamako was canceled.
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