ICAO’s final report on Ryanair incident prepared without Russia, will be published on Sep 13
<p> MINSK, Jun 30 - PrimePress. The final report of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) on the incident with Ryanair’s FR4978 flight in the airspace of Belarus on 23 May 2021 will be prepared without the participation of Russia. Additional ICAO meetings are not expected before the publication of the document on 13 September, 2021. Russia’s representative to ICAO Sergey Gudkov shared this informed with RIA Novosti on June 29. </p> <p> </p> <p> “Russia will not take part in the preparation of the report,” Prime reports citing Gudkov as saying. </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. End </p> <p> </p>
2021-07-01
Primepress
ICAO’s final report on Ryanair incident prepared without Russia, will be published on Sep 13
MINSK, Jun 30 - PrimePress. The final report of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) on the incident with Ryanair’s FR4978 flight in the airspace of Belarus on 23 May 2021 will be prepared without the participation of Russia. Additional ICAO meetings are not expected before the publication of the document on 13 September, 2021. Russia’s representative to ICAO Sergey Gudkov shared this informed with RIA Novosti on June 29.
“Russia will not take part in the preparation of the report,” Prime reports citing Gudkov as saying.
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. End