Shortly after midnight on Wednesday, Italian authorities called on Greece to assist in the search and rescue (SAR) operation to locate a Canadian helicopter that is missing west of Kefalonia, in an area where Rome’s FIR is joining the Athens FIR.

All flights of Boeing 737 Max 8 and 9 are suspended at Greek airports following the decision of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) to suspend all flights of the above two types in European airspace, following the crash of the aircraft of Ethiopian Airlines .

A Turkish CN-235 reconnaissance aircraft returned to its airbase when one of its engines caught fire while it was in the middle of violating the Athens FIR.