Pilots Say Missile Was Fired at Airliner in Northern Iraq.

The article reports on the investigation of security conditions in northern Iraq by Swedish civil aviation authority Luftfartsstyrelsen. The investigation follows reports of two pilots, who stated that their passenger airliner McDonnell Douglas MD-83 operated by Nordic Airways had been attacked by ground missile fire while taking off from an airport in Sulaimaniya, Iraq. According to the pilots, a missile rose from the ground, arc near the plane and drop away.