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Yemen says Houthi attack forced airliner to divert from Aden airport

Yemen’s Transport Ministry said Houthi forces fired two ballistic missiles and multiple drones at Aden International Airport on October 7, with one missile landing near the runway shortly before a flight was due to land. That flight was diverted to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, while two other aircraft on the runway and people in the terminal were evacuated. There was no immediate response from the Houthis.

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An attack on an airport with a scheduled civilian arrival is a different risk category from military-to-military exchanges: it puts commercial flight planning, insurance and crew routing in the same blast radius as the conflict. The diversion to Jeddah also underlines how little redundancy exists in Yemen's surviving air links when a single runway incident forces an evacuation. Whether Aden remains a usable gateway, and whether insurers and carriers treat it as such, is the open question.

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