Japan recommends national airlines to avoid Belarus airspace
<p> MINSK, Jun 10 - PrimePress. Japanese authorities recommend national airlines to avoid the airspace of Belarus after the Ryanair plane grounding incident in Minsk, said Secretary General of the Cabinet of Ministers of Japan Katsunobu Kato. </p> <p> </p> <p> “In connection with the forced landing of a commercial flight, the national airlines will be sent a warning on security measures with recommendations to avoid the airspace of Belarus,” Prime reports citing Kato as saying. </p> <p> </p> <p> Belarusian airlines will be denied access to Japanese airspace, he added. </p> <p> </p> <p> As previously reported, on May 23, a Ryanair airline plane flying fr om Athens to Vilnius made an emergency landing at Minsk National Airport after receiving information about an explosive device on board (the bomb report was not confirmed). The manoeuvre was performed in the company of a Belarus Air Force MIG-29 fighter. Belarusian blogger and activist Roman Protasevich was on board the Ryanair plane and was detained. He is charged under three articles of the Criminal Code of Belarus and is on the international wanted list. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) will conduct an official investigation into the incident. A number of countries have closed their airspace for Belarusian air carriers and prohibited their airlines to fly over Belarus. </p> <p> </p> <p> As a result, the geography of Belavia flights reduced to nine countries, the company said it could not perform flights to 20 countries and Kaliningrad (Russia), wh ere it used to fly. End </p>
2021-06-11
Primepress
Japan recommends national airlines to avoid Belarus airspace
MINSK, Jun 10 - PrimePress. Japanese authorities recommend national airlines to avoid the airspace of Belarus after the Ryanair plane grounding incident in Minsk, said Secretary General of the Cabinet of Ministers of Japan Katsunobu Kato.
“In connection with the forced landing of a commercial flight, the national airlines will be sent a warning on security measures with recommendations to avoid the airspace of Belarus,” Prime reports citing Kato as saying.
Belarusian airlines will be denied access to Japanese airspace, he added.
As previously reported, on May 23, a Ryanair airline plane flying fr om Athens to Vilnius made an emergency landing at Minsk National Airport after receiving information about an explosive device on board (the bomb report was not confirmed). The manoeuvre was performed in the company of a Belarus Air Force MIG-29 fighter. Belarusian blogger and activist Roman Protasevich was on board the Ryanair plane and was detained. He is charged under three articles of the Criminal Code of Belarus and is on the international wanted list. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) will conduct an official investigation into the incident. A number of countries have closed their airspace for Belarusian air carriers and prohibited their airlines to fly over Belarus.
As a result, the geography of Belavia flights reduced to nine countries, the company said it could not perform flights to 20 countries and Kaliningrad (Russia), wh ere it used to fly. End