Malaysia Airlines flights to Doha, Jeddah return to KLIA following conflict-area advisory


KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia Airlines confirms that flights, MH160 operating from Kuala Lumpur to Doha (KUL–DOH) and MH156 from Kuala Lumpur to Jeddah (KUL–JED) on Friday (Feb 27) conducted air turnbacks to Kuala Lumpur and diverted to Chennai, respectively.

These turnbacks followed a mid-flight advisory concerning heightened airspace risk and were executed in accordance with established conflict-area diversion protocols, it said in a statement Saturday (Feb 28).

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