21. They also claim that the Port Authority has no legal right to ban flights approved by the Department of Transportation. 22. Other cases of banning flights have occurred when hijacked planes were in the air. 23. A Libyan airliner took off Wednesday from Tripoli on a flight carrying Muslims to Saudi Arabia in defiance of U.N. sanctions banning international flights. 24. A lack of landing lights means night flights are banned. 25. APTV is also watching the situation at Sarajevo airport where Bosnian Serbs have been banning non-aid flights. 26. Annan has received clearance to fly to Libya, despite U.N. sanctions banning flights to and from the country. 27. As a precaution, many nations banned all flights to and from India and closed their ports to Indian ships. 28. Authorities banned private flights over Florence for Sunday morning, when an Easter ceremony that normally draws thousands of people takes place near the Duomo Cathedral. 29. Bandar became a key player in the final negotiations, driving to the Libyan capital, Tripoli, seven times because flights are banned, to get an agreement. 30. Because U.N. sanctions ban flights in and out of Iraq, visitors have to go there by road, usually through Jordan. |