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Belarus hijacks Ryanair plane to arrest opponent

It was bound for Lithuania

It is still controversial after Belarus literally imposed the hijacking of a low-cost carrier Ryanair aircraft that had departed from Athens and headed for Vilnius, Lithuania. The plane in question landed at the national airport of Minsk to allow the arrest of Roman Protassevich, a former collaborator of Nexta, the Telegram channel of opposition to the Belarusian president Aleksandr Lukashenko. The...

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Minsk, Belarus, 05/24/2021 14:03
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AirlinesICAO releases fact-finding report on Ryanair aircraft, FR4978 flight

The event in Belarus airspace occurred last May 23

ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) has released its fact finding report into the event involving Ryanair flight FR4978 in Belarus airspace occurred last May 23. The report was made accessible... more

Civil aviationICAO: update on fact-finding investigation into Ryanair flight FR4978

An interim report will be presented to the Organization's Council

In response to the ICAO Council’s decision that its Secretariat establish a fact-finding investigation into events surrounding Ryanair flight FR4978, official Requests for Information (RFIs) have now b... more

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The ICAO Council expressed its strong concern yesterday at the apparent forced diversion of Ryanair Flight FR4978, a commercial passenger aircraft flying in Belarus airspace on Sunday, 23 May 2021. At... more

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