Flights Are Still Taking Off as Missiles Rain Down in the Middle East

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I pulled the picture from OANN. It also came from AFP/Getty. Radio France International ran the same picture The Wall Street Journal. ran, but RFI cropped it severely.

https://s.rfi.fr/media/display/82187e0c-218a-11f1-8c64-005056a90284/w:1280/p:16x9/73121ff817cbd70fb84e60952db398e25d4dd811.jpg

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Dozens of flights have arrived in and departed Dubai within minutes of strikes, a WSJ analysis found.

Flights Are Still Taking Off as Missiles Rain Down in the Middle East
Dozens of flights have arrived in and departed Dubai within minutes of strikes, a WSJ analysis found.
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9:27 PM · Mar 21, 2026

Dozens of flights have arrived in and departed Dubai within minutes of strikes, a WSJ analysis found.

— The Wall Street Journal (@wsj.com) 2026-03-22T01:27:16.011528Z

Business | Airlines

Flights Are Still Taking Off as Missiles Rain Down in the Middle East

Dozens of flights have arrived in and departed Dubai within minutes of strikes, a WSJ analysis found

By Benjamin Katz
https://www.wsj.com/news/author/benjamin-katz
March 21, 2026 9:00 pm ET


A flight coming in to land at Dubai airport as smoke rises from a nearby Iranian drone strike on Monday. AFP/Getty Images

Minutes before an Iranian drone smashed into a fuel tank, sending a fiery explosion into the skies above Dubai International Airport, the wheels of an Emirates passenger plane en route to Beijing had just lifted from the runway.

The blast in the early hours of Monday morning forced two planes on approach to quickly divert and take up holding patterns. Twelve other flights had taken off in the 30 minutes before the attack. By midday, the airport was back up and running.

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