Salvatore Sacquitano, Chairman of the Board of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), is ready to send the results of the investigation into the emergency landing of Ryanair aircraft in Minsk to UN Secretary-General António Guterres. DEA News” with reference reference.
According to the organization, the message that a bomb was found on the plane on which Roman Protasevich, the founder of the NEXTA Telegram channel, and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega were flying, was deliberately false and was handed over to the police. Flight crew by order of the Belarusian authorities.
“As for the next steps, the council instructed ICAO to submit the findings of the report with flight FR4978 to all member states of the organization, as well as the report on Belarus’ violations of the Chicago Convention,” the report said.
Formerly The New York Times reportedBelarusian dispatcher Oleg Galegov, who landed a Ryanair plane in Minsk on May 23, said that the report of a possible bomb presence on the plane was deliberately false.
On 23 May, at the request of the Belarusian authorities, an aircraft of the Irish airline Ryanair bound for Vilnius from Athens made an emergency landing in Minsk. Roman Protasevich, the founder of the NEXTA Telegram channel, who was on the plane, was detained by law enforcement. His girlfriend, Russian Sofia Sapega, was also detained.