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Re:Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', op... by relativ575 on Sunday May 23, 2021 @12:27PM (#27256256)
Mental gymnastic you are doing there. Spain and France denied the airspace, meaning the flight couldn't gone through either of them. There is no "not to allow the plane to land". In fact an airplane calling emergency has priority to land anywhere, regardless of the political difference with the host country.

On this topic, this happened with a flight from a US's air base in Afghanistan, rerouted to Iran because of a "bureaucratic issue":

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-iran-aircraft/u-s-says-p...

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Re:Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', op... by ghostwriter on Sunday May 23, 2021 @12:47PM (#27256449)
> Mental gymnastic you are doing there.

Quite contrary, I'm asking for the basis and the motive of denying one specific flight with one specific individual on board a routine procedure of air travel, something that was allowed to hundreds of other flights on that same day. "landing" vs "airspace" is a non-essential detail here, and depending on the context of a situation, either could be denied to achieve the desired goal. I'm asking about the motives of the goal.

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