#111 Libby Bahat, Israel Civil Aviation Authority: Flying civilians into a war zone

#111 Libby Bahat, Israel Civil Aviation Authority: Flying civilians into a war zone

May 25, 2026 · 57 min · Episode 111

About this episode

Libby Bahat discusses the challenges of regulating civil aviation in a war zone.

Libby Bahat returns to The Vertical Space. Last time we talked to him about building an airspace for drones in peacetime. This time he's the regulator who decides whether a 777 full of people lands in a country under missile fire. As Head of the Aerial Infrastructure Department at the Israel Civil Aviation Authority, Libby is one of a small number of people anywhere who has had to build a quantitative framework, debris models, interception zones, penetration probabilities, that lets a civil a...

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Hosts: Jim Barry, Peter Shannon, Luka Tomljenovic

Guest: Libby Bahat

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Organizations: Israel Civil Aviation Authority

Products: 777

Places: Israel, war zone

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