Re:Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', op...
by newacct583 on Monday May 24, 2021 @10:39AM
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First, no, there are no international treaties about forcing aircraft to the ground. That is an extraordinary thing done in circumstances of immediate safety concerns. There are, however, treaties that have been in place about unfettered airspace transit access (no idea which exactly Belarus is a signatory to), and this was pretty clearly in violation of those. There is no "you're in our airspace so we do what we like" rule in international air travel, and that's ridiculous to suggest.
Second: they let the plane in on a flight plan that clearly took it to Vilnius. Again, that's false pretenses.
Per the analogy above: consider a consulate telling someone "sure, you can board this plane without your passport, it's fine" and then arresting the person for a visa violation on landing.
Re:Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', op...
by throwaway21_ on Monday May 24, 2021 @01:00PM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achille_Lauro_hijacking#Interc...
Looks like they learned from the best.
Re:Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', op...
by newacct583 on Monday May 24, 2021 @03:11PM
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The whataboutism here is just insane. Ronald Reagan OK's an interception of a plane containing a known terrorist 36 years ago and now it's OK to hijack airliners anywhere in the world for any reason?
Yeah, this is trolling.
Same thing happened on 9/11 - US chose do land all aircrafts, and in case that anyone disobeyed orders it would be promptly shot down - foreign planes or not, it didn't matter in slightest.