According to Air France, the plane – which was on its way from Paris to Dubai – crossed Iraqi airspace in the initial phase of the Iranian attack, just before the company ordered its planes to stop flying over Iraq and local authorities closed the airspace.
The French media company LCI, which was the first to report on the event, states that the pilots saw the drones on the night sky and that the Iraqi air traffic control had wished them "good luck".
Air France says that it "already avoided Israeli, Lebanese, and Iranian airspace" due to the tense situation in the region, but that "flying over Iraqi airspace was limited to a specific corridor used by all airlines".
Iran fired around 200 drones towards Israel on October 1, after Israel killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an air attack on southern Beirut last month.
