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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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