ICAO may review final report on Ryanair flight on 12 Nov
<p> MINSK, Oct 26 – PrimePress. The Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) plans to review the final report on the Ryanair incident over Belarus on 12 November if it receives all the necessary information which is still being collected, Russian envoy to the organization Sergey Gudkov told a TASS correspondent on Monday. </p> <p> </p> <p> “The final report may be ready on November 12 if all the necessary information is obtained. The collection of data is still underway,” he said. According to the envoy, this decision was made public at the ICAO meeting in Montreal where an interim report on this issue was presented. The Russian representative noted that no analysis has been performed nor any conclusions drawn on the basis of existing data. </p> <p> </p> <p> According to him, director of the aviation department at the Belarusian Ministry of Transport and Communications Artyom Sikorsky attended the meeting in a video format. </p> <p> </p> <p> In mid-September 2021, the Aviation Department of the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Belarus said that the ICAO had notified Minsk about postponing consideration of the preliminary report on the incident from September to October without specifying a date. Prior to that, a preliminary report on the forced landing of the Ryanair aircraft in Minsk was planned for 13 September. </p> <p> </p> <p> On May 23, a Vilnius-bound Ryanair flight that took off from Athens was forced to make an emergency landing in the Belarusian capital of Minsk after a reported bomb threat. A Mikoyan MiG-29 jet was scrambled to escort the plane into Minsk. The bomb threat came up empty after the aircraft had landed. The Belarusian authorities specified later that Roman Protasevich, wanted in Belarus as a co-founder of the Nexta Telegram channel, which the Belarusian authorities recognized as extremist, had been among the flight’s passengers. He was detained by Belarusian law enforcement agents. Following the incident, the European Union barred Belarusian air companies from operating flights to EU airports and using the European Union’s airspace, and recommended that European air carriers should avoid Belarusian airspace. In May, Ukraine also cut off air links with Belarus and closed the airspace to Belarusian planes. End </p>
2021-10-27
Primepress
ICAO may review final report on Ryanair flight on 12 Nov
MINSK, Oct 26 – PrimePress. The Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) plans to review the final report on the Ryanair incident over Belarus on 12 November if it receives all the necessary information which is still being collected, Russian envoy to the organization Sergey Gudkov told a TASS correspondent on Monday.
“The final report may be ready on November 12 if all the necessary information is obtained. The collection of data is still underway,” he said. According to the envoy, this decision was made public at the ICAO meeting in Montreal where an interim report on this issue was presented. The Russian representative noted that no analysis has been performed nor any conclusions drawn on the basis of existing data.
According to him, director of the aviation department at the Belarusian Ministry of Transport and Communications Artyom Sikorsky attended the meeting in a video format.
In mid-September 2021, the Aviation Department of the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Belarus said that the ICAO had notified Minsk about postponing consideration of the preliminary report on the incident from September to October without specifying a date. Prior to that, a preliminary report on the forced landing of the Ryanair aircraft in Minsk was planned for 13 September.
On May 23, a Vilnius-bound Ryanair flight that took off from Athens was forced to make an emergency landing in the Belarusian capital of Minsk after a reported bomb threat. A Mikoyan MiG-29 jet was scrambled to escort the plane into Minsk. The bomb threat came up empty after the aircraft had landed. The Belarusian authorities specified later that Roman Protasevich, wanted in Belarus as a co-founder of the Nexta Telegram channel, which the Belarusian authorities recognized as extremist, had been among the flight’s passengers. He was detained by Belarusian law enforcement agents. Following the incident, the European Union barred Belarusian air companies from operating flights to EU airports and using the European Union’s airspace, and recommended that European air carriers should avoid Belarusian airspace. In May, Ukraine also cut off air links with Belarus and closed the airspace to Belarusian planes. End