Challenge Airlines circled wildly and landed in Tel Aviv

 Direct translation

This flight circled wildly and landed in Israel. Netizens laughed when they saw the company name

Editor : Shi Fang / Source: NOWnews / https://www.aboluowang.com/2025/0619/2235197.html

▲Israel and Iran have been at war for days. Some netizens discovered that a flight circled several times off the coast of Israel and landed at Tel Aviv Airport on the 18th, sparking discussion. (Image : Photo taken from Facebook group/Kaohsiung Airport Aircraft Information Exchange)

Israel and Iran continue to exchange fire, and flights from many countries have been diverted. However, some netizens found that a cargo flight from Belgium to Israel, after circling several times off the coast of Israel on the 18th, landed in Tel Aviv, which was bombed recently. After checking that the airline of the flight was "Challenge Airlines", netizens laughed: "It is a real airline."

On the 18th, a netizen posted a message on the Facebook group "Kaohsiung Airport Aircraft Information Exchange" to share a flight to Tel Aviv, Israel, which circled for a long time off the coast of Israel. Many people on the flightradar24 website also paid attention to this flight, which was once on the hot tracking list of the day.

According to the flightradar24 website, the flight that caused the discussion was the "Challenge Airlines IL" flight code ICL608, which flew from Liege, Belgium to Tel Aviv, Israel. According to the website, the plane flew to the waters off Israel in the afternoon of the 18th, and after circling dozens of times in the waters of Tel Aviv, it landed at the city's Ben Gurion Airport, 48 minutes later than the scheduled landing time.

Many netizens left messages and laughed, "It's really a real airline", "Challenge accepted!"

According to the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the aviation risk monitoring website SafeAirspace, due to the escalation of the Israeli-Iranian conflict, the airspace over Israel has been listed as "high-risk airspace". All flights must pass layers of military and civil aviation approval before entering its airspace, which may be the reason why the flight circled in the sea.