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As you can see on the flightradar24.com map, the sky over Belarus is almost empty. Only single Russian and Belarusian passenger planes as well as Turkish and Chinese cargo planes pass through. Why is the matter of forcing an Irish airline Ryanair flight via Belarus to land on its territory important to Canada? Ireland is a neutral country. →
Am Sonntag ereignete sich eine beispiellose Situation, als ein Flug der irischen Fluggesellschaft Ryanair FR4978, der von Athen in Griechenland nach Vilnius in Litauen flog, “gezwungen” wurde, in Weißrussland zu landen. Das Flugzeug befand sich im Luftraum von Belarus, nur etwa 10 km von der Grenze zu Litauen entfernt, als es die Route änderte und in Richtung Minsk, der Hauptstadt von Belarus, abbog. →
On Sunday, an unprecedented situation took place, when – according to international press agencies – an Irish airline Ryanair flight FR4978 flying from Athens in Greece to Vilnius in Lithuania was “forced” to land in Belarus. The plane was in the airspace of Belarus only about 10 km (6 miles) from the border with Lithuania when it changed route and turned towards Minsk, the capital of Belarus. →
