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…