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Why Commercial Pilots are not allowed to fly over the Poles

    You've probably thought about why airplanes don't fly over the poles, well if you read this article I will tell you why.
  
  First, because you have to be within 1 hour of an airport if something goes wrong, and I don't think there are to many places to land on the poles.

  Second, because pilots say navigational equipment goes crazy. Imagine that you are a pilot taking a commercial flight from somewhere north to Alaska. Then, you accidently cross the borders into the north pole. Suddenly, your navigational equipment points you in the wrong direction and you don't know what altitude you are at. That's why commercial flights don't fly there(only charter flights, like to bring scientists to them).


  It takes a shorter time to just fly around the poles instead of going through all the hassle(it depends on where you are going). So that's why they don't fly over the poles.

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