Politics

Forced Landing of Flight Sparks International Incident

Flight intercepted by fighter jet and forced to divert under false pretenses.

Kevin Alexander
2 min readMay 24, 2021

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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…

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Kevin Alexander

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