Recent Examples on the WebThe overflight of the carrier strike group will raise questions in Congress, where Republicans seized on the spy balloon issue to accuse President Biden of failing to deter Chinese espionage.—Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2023 Then, in 2020, the U.S. withdrew from the Open Skies Treaty because Russia had abused its overflight privileges and because our national technical assets made overflight to obtain information obsolete.—John R. Bolton, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024 So far, the Coast Guard said overflight assessments determined there have been no reports of injuries or shoreline impacts.—Stepheny Price, Fox News, 21 Nov. 2023 As part of the deal, Israel committed to limit unmanned drone overflights above the territory.—Neri Zilber, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2023 Year after year, however, new data collected from overflights of fracking fields, patrols of urban pipelines, and, most recently, satellite measurements confirmed the Cornell data: leakage rates were high enough to make natural gas unnaturally dangerous.—Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2023 O’Leary was in Brussels to promote Ryanair’s petition urging the EC to protect overflights across Europe when air traffic controllers go on strike.—BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023 The statement is hypocritical at best, since China knows that countries have long demanded balloons obtain overflight rights before entering national airspace—and that American recreational balloonists have previously been forced down—and even shot down for unexpected overflights.—Craig Hooper, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023 That case prompted the start of federal overflights during the Copper River opener, Charles said.—Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 3 June 2023
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