Politics
Forced Landing of Flight Sparks International Incident
Flight intercepted by fighter jet and forced to divert under false pretenses.
2 min readMay 24, 2021
A Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius (FR 4978) was transiting Belarusian airspace yesterday when it was intercepted by a fighter jet and forced to diver to Minsk, the capital of Belarus under the guise…