Posted on 05/24/2021 10:37:18 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
Authorities in Belarus scrambled a fighter jet and flagged what turned out to be a false bomb alert to force a Ryanair plane to land on Sunday and then detained an opposition-minded journalist who was on board, drawing criticism from across Europe.
In the dramatic incident, a Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter jet escorted Ryanair-operated passenger plane flying from Athens to Lithuania. The plane was suddenly diverted to Minsk, the capital of Belarus, where authorities detained journalist Roman Protasevich.
Data from the flightradar24.com website showed the plane was diverted just two minutes before it was due to cross into Lithuanian airspace. After several hours in Minsk, the plane took off again for Vilnius, a top EU official said.
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We’re not far behind.
Dictators gonna do what Dictators gonna do...
Roman Protasevich is wanted in Belarus on extremism charges and stands accused of organizing mass riots and of inciting social hatred.
The USA did this to the President of Bolivia when the FBI thought Julian Assange was aboard. I think the Ukrainians did this recently to grab someone who was opposed to the 2014 “color revolution.”
We only get angry when the Russians do it.
Soooo he is a good guy?
None of our business.
He's as good as any BLM, Antifa or Occupy Disinformation Propagandist Marxist Agitator can be.
A reverse Snowden!
Are Belarusians(spelling ?) rooskies? It used to be an SSR ...
I think it likely there are no good guys involved on either side of this incident.
Yep.
Ex SSRs - fun places ! Visit exotic Moldova on your next vacation
However there are many offended who are willing to fight ... using someone else's soldiers.
Hi.
In the fwiw department, between 1978-79 I flew from Ankara to Roma on Turk Hava. Around I’m guessing Romania, we picked up a Mig21 escort (2). For about 5 minutes. I thought that was interesting...
Then about 3 months later I was on an Italia flt from Roma to Istanbul and the same thing happened.
The second time was a little unnerving. I could easily see the pilot, and he could easily see me.
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I wonder what the orders were if they were to ignore the demand and proceed to that airspace
Belarus diversion echoes prior Ukrainian incident involving Belavia 737
By David Kaminski-Morrow24 May 2021
Alitalia
Poop.
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Details?
Exactly
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