overflight
nounEtymology From over- + flight.
1
The flight of an aircraft over a particular place; used especially to refer to a flight over foreign or enemy territory.
- Nicaragua has been investigating the possibility that the 1985 outbreak of dengue fever along its Honduran border may have resulted from the release of infected mosquitos by U.S. reconnaissance overflights.1987 May 9, Bod Lederer, “US Denies AIDS Bio War with Contradictions”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
- Related terms
- flyover, flyover country, flyover state, flypast, overfly