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World must prevent repeat of Belarus incident, airlines chief says

World must prevent repeat of Belarus incident, airlines chief says

THE head of a group representing most global airlines welcomed an international investigation into the forced landing of a Ryanair jetliner in Belarus and said the world must ensure such incidents never happen again. "That sort of behaviour is completely unacceptable and must be strongly condemned. We must have measures to ensure that can't happen again," Willie Walsh, director-general of the International Air Transport Association, told Reuters. The United Nations' International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) agreed on Thursday to investigate the forced grounding. Belarus has said it was responding to a bomb threat. Walsh said evidence suggested the threat had…
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UN agency says it is ‘strongly concerned’ by Belarus jet incident

UN agency says it is ‘strongly concerned’ by Belarus jet incident

TIM HEPHER THE United Nations' aviation agency was "strongly concerned" by the apparent forced landing of a Ryanair jetliner in Belarus, it has announced. The International Civil Aviation Organization said the incident may have contravened the Chicago Convention, a 1944 treaty that set rules for the burgeoning industry anticipated after World War Two and which underpins civil aviation today. Authorities in Belarus scrambled a fighter jet and flagged what turned out to be a false bomb alert to force a Ryanair plane to land, drawing international criticism. The jet was flying through Belarus airspace en route from Athens to Lithuania…
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