Belarus: Ryanair CEO says Minsk plane grounding 'state-sponsored piracy'

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Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary has condemned 'state-sponsored piracy' by Belarus after one of his passenger jets was yesterday forced to land by a warplane on the pretext of a bomb threat.

Opposition journalist Roman Protasevich, 26, was hauled off the plane and arrested with his Russian girlfriend Sofia Sapega, 23, after the flight from Greece to Lithuania made the emergency landing in Minsk.

The Boeing 737, which had more than 170 passengers on board, made a sharp deviation from its course just a few miles from the Lithuanian border, leading some aviation experts to believe that the MiG-29 fighter jet may even have threatened to shoot the Ryanair plane down.

Irish airline boss O'Leary called it a 'state-sponsored hijacking' on Monday, adding that 'we believe there were some KGB agents offloaded at the airport as well.'

Suspicions have fallen on four Russian passengers who voluntarily departed in Minsk, not continuing with the flight when it travelled on to its final destination, the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius.

Original Article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9611995/Belarus-MiG-29-threatened-SHOOT-Ryanair-jet-did-not-land.html
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