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Belarus forces Ryanair plane to divert *NO GENERAL POLITICS* *MOD WARNING POST 1*

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  • #272
    Larbre34
    Registered Users Posts: 23,793 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Thats unfortunate and in that event there should be compensation available, but if Putin knows he can toy with the EU over such exceptions, he will escalate. He must be stomped on for this stuff, not appeased.


  • #273
    cnocbui
    Registered Users Posts: 19,664 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Larbre34 wrote: »
    An immediate retaliation banning all Russian owned and operated flights from landing anywhere in the EU should follow. As soon as the Oligarchs have to start getting the train to their villas and banks in Europe, Russia will change its tune.

    Putin also needs a massive slap.

    Germany spoke out strongly against this piracy, but knowing Putin is really behind this, they chosse not to actually do anything, such as making the completion and actual use of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline conditional on the release of Protasevich.

    That pipeline could well end the EU.


  • #274
    Larbre34
    Registered Users Posts: 23,793 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    cnocbui wrote: »
    Germany spoke out strongly against this piracy, but knowing Putin is really behind this, they chosse not to actually do anything, such as making the completion and actual use of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline conditional on the release of Protasevich.

    That pipeline could well end the EU.

    Germany may need to have a wee chat with itself about the strategic wisdom of ending all nuclear power and becoming so dependent on this Russian sourced energy.


  • #275
    JCX BXC
    Registered Users Posts: 18,098 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    3 weeks on and.....all forgotten?


  • #276
    cnocbui
    Registered Users Posts: 19,664 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Of course it's forgotten. Putin, China, Belarus - they all get away with this stuff: hacking, poisoning, Uyghurs and so on, because the west is paralysed with fear at the thought of using a military response, which is odd, because this lot seem to have no fear of reprisals when it comes to carrying out this stuff.


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  • #277
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users Posts: 19,609 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    Michael oLeary gave evidence to the Transport committee in the House of Commons, sounds like the pilot was put under huge pressure to land in Minsk
    He said the flight crew were told by Minsk air traffic control that they had received “a credible threat that if the aircraft entered Lithuanian air space, or attempted to land at Vilnius airport, that a bomb on board would be detonated”.

    He explained that the captain “repeatedly” asked Minsk ATC to provide an open line of communication back to Ryanair’s operations control centre in Warsaw, but was told: “Ryanair weren’t answering the phone”, which was “completely untrue”. O’Leary said diverted Ryanair flights in that location would normally land in Poland and the other Baltic states, but the captain was put under “considerable pressure” to land in Minsk.

    “He wasn’t instructed to do so, but he wasn’t left with any great alternatives,” he told the committee.

    After the plane landed in Minsk, “a number of unidentified persons boarded the aircraft” who were “carrying video cameras”, the Irish aviation veteran said. They “repeatedly attempted to get the crew to confirm on video that they had voluntarily diverted to Minsk”, but the crew “refused to confirm that”, he explained. O’Leary added that the passengers and crew were taken to a terminal building, while the captain remained onboard the aircraft but was accompanied by an armed guard every time he left his cockpit.

    “It was a very threatening and hostile environment,” he said. “We eventually got the aircraft back out of Minsk after about eight hours.”

    O'Leary also confirmed that 5 people on the plane never got back on it. Two of them were Roman Protasevich and his Russian girlfriend. O'Leary thinks the other 3 were KGB
    There were five passengers missing when the plane took off again, the committee heard. They were Protasevich, his travelling companion, and three “unidentified persons”.
    O’Leary said: “We understand from the security agencies that it is likely that they were three KGB types. “Now whether that was Russian KGB or Belarusian KGB, we don’t know, and we’re not sure there’s much of a difference anyway.

    “But this was clearly a premeditated breach of all the international aviation rules, regulations, safety. “An aircraft was brought down under false pretences using Minsk ATC and it seems clear that certainly two passengers were removed against their will and forcibly detained.”
    https://www.thejournal.ie/ryanair-flight-diversion-to-belarus-against-international-aviation-rules-5467230-Jun2021/


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