Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', opposition says

Re:Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', op... by kergonath on Sunday May 23, 2021 @07:27PM (#27259573)

Tuer is a difference between closing an airspace and re-routing a plane with a fighter jet.

Not that it was right, but still quite a difference.

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Re:Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', op... by whimsicalism on Monday May 24, 2021 @01:41PM (#27267369)

Closing an airspace is re-routing with the implicit threat of a fighter jet.

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Re:Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', op... by kergonath on Monday May 24, 2021 @05:25PM (#27269909)

Closing an airspace is letting people know they can’t fly there. It is hostile but really not the same level as an ambush and kidnapping. Had Belarus just closed their air space, the aircraft would simply have flown elsewhere and the journalist would still be free.

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Re:Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', op... by whimsicalism on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @12:09PM (#27278645)

Well they were in Belarusian airspace. Can they close their airspace in a specially shaped path straight to Minsk where any deviation would be an infringement on their airspace closure?

You can "trap" planes by closing airspace all around them? That is effectively what occurred for the Morales flight. I don't think it is effectively distinguishable.

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Re:Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', op... by caf on Monday May 24, 2021 @02:50AM (#27261658)

There is zero difference, because closed airspace will ultimately be enforced at the point of a fighter jet.

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