Ryanair Hijacking News Today

President Kersti Kaljulaid has called for a halt to what she called a flow of money from reaching Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. Kaljulaid had already referred to alleged money laundering on the part of the Belarusian leader and his cronies via the City of London in interviews with the British media earlier this week and in the aftermath of last Sunday's hijacking and forced landing of a civilian airliner, carried out by Belarusian state authorities.

The EU Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) made its recommendation Tuesday. A Panaviatic Piaggio P180 Avanti turboprop plane registered in Estonia landed in Minsk Wednesday, departing the same day. Founded in 2008, Panaviatic is based at Tallinn Airport and operates eight charter flights using smaller planes, predominantly Learjet models. The P180 can accommodate up to six passengers. Wednesdays flight left Olsztyn-Mazury Airport in north-eastern Poland, the return flight went to Katowice, also in ...

Head of think-tank the Tallinn-based International Center for Defense and Security (ICDS) Indrek Kannik says Sunday's hijacking of a civilian airliner by Belarusian authorities constitutes state terrorism and is likely to be followed by serious sanctions.

24.05.2021, 13:33 The North Atlantic Alliance is closely monitoring the situation in Belarus. NATO countries are consulting on the Ryanair incident and preparing to discuss it at the ambassadorial level on Tuesday 25 May, as Reuters reports. Let us remind you that NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg reacted on Twitter to the hijacking of the Ryanair plane by the Belarusian authorities. “Closely monitoring forcible landing in #Belarus of flight to Vilnius & reported detention of oppositi...