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Re:Transcript of controller telling plane to land in Minsk by shakermakr on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @01:50PM (#27279945)
It's now flagged. A comment saying that the forced landing of the President of Bolvia's plane in Austria, due to the US belief that Snowdon was on board, could be somehow relevant to the forced landing of a Ryanair flight in Belarus of someone the government believes is damaging them.

Free speech in action...

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Re:Transcript of controller telling plane to land in Minsk by iso1631 on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @01:59PM (#27280077)
There was no such forced landing, the plane had enough fuel to return to its departure airport.
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Re:Transcript of controller telling plane to land in Minsk by plank on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @02:32PM (#27280479)
My information is different (e.g. Greenwalds account: Without enough fuel to fly an alternative route, the Bolivian pilot was forced to make a U-turn and land in Vienna.)
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Re:Transcript of controller telling plane to land in Minsk by notahacker on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @05:44PM (#27283110)
If the pilot had enough fuel to reach his original proposed refuelling stop in the Canary Islands, he had enough fuel to get back to Russia

(The cockpit audio suggests the pilot actually was worried about the amount of fuel he had left as he reported an issue with his fuel gauge, but "Morales forced to land by minor technical issue" isn't quite as compelling a story...)

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