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Belarus news... and Forced landing and arrest of two passengers event in 2021
Belarus just Hijacked an Aircraft? it was flying from Greece to Lithuania
EU is calling it State sponsored Terror
State Police KGB-ish Gestapo Stasi style police onboard? fighter MiG-29 was launched to "escort" the plane to Minsk in Belarus
They seemed to admit it and are after some journalist guy accusing him of anti-government protest activity inside Belarus
Belarus is also trying to get some news channel that was announcing protest marches
A US made Boeing 737 Aircraft
https://amp.dw.com/en/belarus-opposition-says-government-forced-ryanai
r-plane-to-land-to-arrest-journalist/a-57635240
Flight track
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/fr4978#27cce9a2
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/RYR1TZ/history/20210523/0731Z/LGAV
/UMMS
news
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/furious-outcry-from-eu-leaders-after-belar
us-uses-fighter-jet-to-divert-ryanair-flight
https://www.politico.eu/article/belarus-journalist-arrest-roman-protas
evich-diverted-flight-minsk/
https://news.yahoo.com/lithuania-investigating-belarus-potential-terro
rism-043507348.html
Ryanair Flight 4978 from Greece to Lithuania was over Belarusian airspace
Belarus Ryanair ‘hijacking’ - European leaders discuss sanctions after ‘act of state terror’ condemned.
Twitter gossip said - …
They made threats to shoot down and kill a civilian passenger airline?
https://twitter.com/pavellatushka/status/1396515485068447748?s=21
https://twitter.com/pavellatushka/status/1396519000830582784?s=21
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Other reports say a bomb threat was E-mailed
Not sure if Americans onboard but citizen of France, Spain, Austria , Russia, Belarus, Nigeria, Syria, Greece , Lithuania, citizens of Poland were reported onboard
a kind of terroristic communist fascist extra judicial kidnap to get one guy they didnt like, while making terror threats to destroy an airplane with innocent lives?
https://greekreporter.com/2021/05/24/belarus-hijack-athens-to-vilnius-
flight/
https://www.pprune.org/jet-blast/640636-belarusse-hijack.html
https://forums.jetphotos.com/forum/general-discussion-forums/aviation-
safety-discussion-forum/1116285-belarusian-mig-forces-down-ryanair-flight-to-detain-dissident
also bomb threat?
Lativian airline airBaltic says is no longer using Belarus airspace for its flights
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL3N2NB1ZX
Flightradar24 is a global flight tracking website
'We haven't seen any official airline announcements but it looks like some airlines are avoiding Belarus airspace.'
https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1396763211270086660
Donald Tusk - was President of the European Council from 2014 to 2019.
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1396477586738450432
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Lukashenko has become a threat not only to his own citizens but also to international security. His act of state terrorism demands an immediate and tough reaction of all European governments and institutions.
'
Back in the USSR days
Belarus, formerly known as Belorussia or White Russia, was the smallest of the three Slavic republics included in the Soviet Union
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By The Book - What Really Happened With The Ryanair Flight In Belarus
We yesterday looked at the record of Roman Protasevich, the western financed neo-nazi arrested on Sunday in Belarus. Another still open issue is how the incident developed.
Protasevich was arrested after a plane he was flying on from Greece to Lithuania was diverted to Minsk due to a bomb threat. There had been an open warrant of arrest against Protasevich which was enforced as he entered the country. NEXTA, the regime change organization in Poland where Protasevich had previously worked to organize a coup in Belarus, had doxxed policemen in Belarus and thereby endangered their families.
The Aviation Department of the Belorussian Ministry for Transport and Communication has published its official report of the incident. It is written in Russian and English language (scroll down for the English version). The report includes what seems to be the full transcript of the radio traffic between the plane and the air traffic control.
The report and the transcript debunk a number of false claims made in the 'western' reporting on the issue.
The main facts:
Department of Aviation in accordance with the requirements of Standards 5.2.5 and 5.3.1 of Annex 17 to the Convention on the International Civil Aviation, the Department of Aviation informs about the fact of an act of unlawful interference in the activities of civil aviation on the territory of the Republic of Belarus.
On May 23, 2021, a written message with the following content in English was sent to the e-mail of the National Airport Minsk from the e-mail address protonmail.com:
“We, Hamas soldiers, demand that Israel cease fire in the Gaza Strip. We demand that the European Union abandon its support for Israel in this war. We know that the participants of Delphi Economic Forum are returning home on May 23 via flight FR4978. A bomb has been planted onto this aircraft. If you don’t meet our demands the bomb will explode on May 23 over Vilnius. Allahu Akbar.”
Taking into account the seriousness of the threat received, the information from the National Airport Minsk was forwarded to the relevant air traffic control services of Belaeronavigatsia State-Owned-Enterprise.
In accordance with the requirements of the Annex 17 to the Chicago Convention and the National Program for the Protection of Civil Aviation from Acts of Unlawful Interference in the Republic of Belarus, a response actions mechanism was put into effect in connection with acts of unlawful interference in the civil aviation activity.
The flight FR4978 en route Athens (Greece) - Vilnius (Lithuania), operated on a Boeing 737-800 by Ryanair. The aircraft departed from Athens airport at 07.10 UTC (10.10 Belarusian time), entered into the Republic of Belarus airspace under the control of the Minsk ACC at 09.30 UTC (12.30 Belarusian time). The entry point into the airspace of the Minsk FIR was SOMAT.
Some comments on this:
The report is 'by the book' as it should be.
Protonmail, from where the email was received, is a encrypted web-email service hosted in Switzerland which allows more or less anonymous traffic.
An alleged screenshot of the email currently gets peddled around by the Editor-in-Chief of NEXTA:
Tadeusz Giczan @TadeuszGiczan - 11:59 PM · May 26, 2021
Not that anyone had any doubts but ‘Hamas email’ was sent to Minsk airport 24 minutes after Belarusian air controllers warned Ryanair pilots there’s a bomb onboard.
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Giczan is right in that the time shown in the screenshot is inconsistent with the timing of the Ryanair flight in the Belorussian airspace.
That however proves nothing. Time stamps in emails are notoriously unreliable as they depend on various computer timezone settings and several other variables.
Clocks, computers and phones in Switzerland are currently set to UTC(GMT)+2 hours. Clocks, computers and phones in Belarus to UTC+3. A email sent at 10:57 Geneva time would likely show up as sent at 11:57 in MNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Guy is tinkering with politics in Belarus, has open warrant for his arrest in Belarus, and then takes a flight passing through Belarus airspace.
That makes me cringe, wince, frown.
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From Signy's post it looks like a bomb threat against that flight was received, and as per long-standing SOP documented historically for that airline from previous bomb threats, the flight was diverted. Once it landed, authorities acted on the outstanding arrest warrant.
They didn't divert the plane and bring it down just to arrest the guy.
It looks like, once again, the media is falsifying the story to fit the narrative, to propagandize us for tptb.
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Quote:I usually try to convince myself that you are not really highly gullible.....but you keep posting the most inane comments.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
From Signy's post it looks like a bomb threat against that flight was received, and as per long-standing SOP documented historically for that airline from previous bomb threats, the flight was diverted. Once it landed, authorities acted on the outstanding arrest warrant.
They didn't divert the plane and bring it down just to arrest the guy.
It looks like, once again, the media is falsifying the story to fit the narrative, to propagandize us for tptb.
Maybe I can FIFY: Belarus is really, really, really ticked at this guy, and really want to "arrest" him, which he says means "kill him"
So, as they track his whereabouts, they see he is on a plane. And the flight plan crosses Belarus airspace, on the way to Vilnius.
So, when it is in Belarus airspace, under ATC Minsk, they will direct the pilots to divert to Minsk and land there, so he can be arrested. As part of this deceit, they may or may not ananamously send a fake email threat about a demand for cease fire where there has already been a cease fire for days.
You sound like you have never even heard of chess - maybe you can only handle checkers or solitaire.
Why not divert to Kaunas instead? The flight was far closer to Kaunas than Minsk already, and Ryanair flies more flights there than anybody else. Obviously, because Belarus police were not waiting there to arrest the irritant.
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The talk wiki mod section of wikipedia reads like a cluster fuck
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ryanair_Flight_4978
but the main wikipedia article seems ok
Quote:
Ryanair Flight 4978 was an international scheduled passenger flight from Athens International Airport, Greece, to Vilnius Airport, Lithuania, on 23 May 2021. While in Belarusian airspace, it was diverted by the Belarusian government to Minsk National Airport where two of its passengers, opposition activist and journalist Roman Protasevich and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega, were arrested by authorities. The flight was escorted to Minsk by a Belarusian fighter jet under the pretence of a bomb threat on the orders of the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko. The aircraft was allowed to depart after seven hours, reaching Vilnius eight and a half hours behind schedule.
The event was widely condemned by civil aviation authorities and multiple governments. Initially some European states and airlines responded with new restrictions on flights passing through and from Belarus; on the day after the incident, the European Union initiated new sanctions, including closing off Belarusian airspace and carriers to the EU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryanair_Flight_4978
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, from whose country the Ryanair flight originated, described the forced landing of the aircraft as a "shocking act" and said that political pressure on Belarus must be stepped up. Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias described the event as a "state-sponsored abduction"
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda accused Belarusian authorities of carrying out an "abhorrent action". He also said: "I call on NATO and EU allies to immediately react to the threat posed to international civil aviation by the Belarus regime. The international community must take immediate steps that this does not repeat". Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonyte informed the public that the pre-trial investigation has been started for forced disappearance and hijacking of the aircraft
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JSF, I'm not making anything up. If you read Signy's post (you DID read the post - right?) the decision where to go was made by ATC.
And when it comes to which story has more eividence - Signy's or yours - well, yours has none, whereas Signy's has quite a bit.
Oh, as long you feel free to make snarky personal comments, let me return the favor. Why not land on Signy for being stupid and posting her post? Why land on me because I reiterated it? Is it because you have the emotional maturity of a 13 year old 'mean girl'? Or are you drunk posting?
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'WizAir avoiding Belarus airspace'
'The political escalation is going on.
Now Russia denied alternative routes for Airlines which requested it to avoid Belarus air space.'
https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/belarus/76986
Spain now telling Spanish operators and aircraft to avoid Belarus unless needed in an emergency. Also telling aircraft bound for Spain to avoid overflying Belarus.
https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1397890770745675776
'Updated: where are Belarus airlines allowed to operate now? See updated restrictions and track live'
https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1398041121436147717
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Belarus president tells Putin he has 'documents' on Ryanair incident
https://in.finance.yahoo.com/video/belarus-president-tells-putin-docum
ents-183154147.html
FBI and Poland have launched inquiries into Belarus plane, says Lithuanian police chief. The FBI launches probe
https://www.reuters.com/article/belarus-politics-lithuania-fbi/fbi-and
-poland-have-launched-inquiries-into-belarus-plane-says-lithuanian-police-chief-idUSL5N2NF1KD
US, European nations call for investigation into Belarus plane diversion at UN Security Council
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x81jjgq
Belarus excuse...
'Accuses Hamas'?
vimeo.com/555606787
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JSF: Stop thinking with your feelz. Far from being "unprecedented!" the diversion of aircraft bc of bomb threats is commonplace. RyanAir itself had two previous diversions recently.
And the west has diverted aircraft bc political refugees were suspected to be onboard, most notably
Quote:https://www.moonofalabama.org/ because Edward Snowden was suspected to be onboard. (He wasn't.) Not only was the plane a commercial flight, it was transporting the President of a foreign nation. Where was the outrage then? All together, there is a list of about a dozen flight diversions and/ interferences not having anything to do with bomb threats, all perpetrated by the west.
Also remember, that the plane of Bolivian president Evo Morales was forced to land in Austria in July 2013, after France, Spain, Portugal and Italy had closed their airspace on American orders.
In any case, the bomb threat emails were real, but not genuine. The question isn't whether there was a bomb threat or whether Belarus' response was legal and by the book, but who made the threat? It was awfully convenient for Belarus.
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THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.
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