PARIS – Europe’s air safety regulator upgraded a safety warning over Belarus airspace on June 2, urging its 31 mainly European Union nations to instruct their airlines to avoid overflying Belarus in the wake of the forced landing of a Ryanair jet.
Reuters: Safety agency urges EU nations to ban use of Belarus airspace
A photo taken on May 23, 2021, shows a Boeing 737-8AS Ryanair passenger plane (flight FR4978, SP-RSM) from Athens, Greece, that was intercepted and diverted to Minsk on the same day by Belarus authorities, landing at Vilnius International Airport, its initial destination.
