> Pilot: Again, this recommendation to divert to Minsk where did it come from? Where did it come from? Company? Did it come from departure airport authorities or arrival airport authorities?<p>Is it usual for a pilot to ask for all this information? From a "casual reader" perspective, it looks like the pilot really did not want to divert, but this might just be my reading.
All the info from ATC is in that just vague enough category that you wonder if it’s just a language barrier issue or if what you’re thinking is really happening.<p>I feel like the pilot knew something was off, but eventually went along with it because he didn’t really have any other choice.<p>Is Belarus going to become another country international airlines avoid flying over?
This is the most interesting part for me:<p><i>PILOT ASKS FOR FURTHER DETAILS</i><p><i>Pilot: Again, this recommendation to divert to Minsk where did it come from? Where did it come from? Company? Did it come from departure airport authorities or arrival airport authorities?</i><p>There he was on the right track to do what we always recommend to avoid being fished: Independently verify from the original source.<p><i>Controller: This is our recommendations.</i><p>Minsk thwarts it by telling the truth and going into <i>Milgram Experiment</i> mode:<p><i>Pilot: Can you say again?</i><p><i>Controller: This is our recommendations.</i><p><i>Pilot: (unreadable.)</i><p><i>Pilot: Did you say that your recommendation?</i><p><i>PILOT AGREES TO LAND IN MINSK</i><p>Unfortunately (but understandably) pilot obeys.
>according to a transcript released on Tuesday by authorities in Belarus.<p>>Following are excerpts from the transcript, which Reuters was unable to verify.<p>I would wait for a Ryanair transcript.
Don't forget that the country that started to divert planes to catch democrat dissidents was the United States. But Snowden wasn't in the plane.<p>Details here:
<a href="https://greenwald.substack.com/p/as-anger-toward-belarus-mounts-recall" rel="nofollow">https://greenwald.substack.com/p/as-anger-toward-belarus-mou...</a>
The caa.gov.by news release has a much more complete (Belarusian-sourced) transcript than the edited Reuters one: <a href="http://caa.gov.by/ru/news-ru/view/1-203/" rel="nofollow">http://caa.gov.by/ru/news-ru/view/1-203/</a><p>EDIT: copy-pasta from (Belarusian) source <a href="https://gist.github.com/SpComb/849b97bae720cb77ab4c43ef92daec59" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/SpComb/849b97bae720cb77ab4c43ef92dae...</a>
I'm getting Access Denied to the article. It seems to be available on archive.org [0]...<p>[0] <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210525165724/https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/they-say-code-is-red-transcript-controller-telling-plane-land-minsk-2021-05-25/" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20210525165724/https://www.reute...</a>
> ATC: They say code is red.<p>Shouldn't ATC just say the code is red instead of trying to distance him/herself from it? Could any pilots here provide more context?
The controller[s] were probably just as powerless as the pilot (considering the fighter escort). Get that plane to land, period.<p>Were they reading from a script and did they improvise?
Looking forward to read the transcripts from the cockpit voice recorder. Curious to know whether the pilots knew or suspected that there were intelligence operatives on board.
Are airliners in contact with their airlines, via say satelite phone?<p>Would the pilot be able to verify with Ryanair HQ whether they know about the bomb threat they are being fed from ATC?<p>Of course when the recomendation is accompanied by a fighter jet one doesn't have a choice regardless, but I'm still curious whether they are at ATC's mercy for information.
Given that it's simple for anyone to setup a powerful radio to spoof ATC, and it probably would be too hard to sabotage the real ATC radio, I'm surprised planes haven't been hijacked like this before, but without the use of official ATC.
What about the claim that there was a bomb on that plane? From what I have read there was an email sent from a protonmail account and was talking about the Israel/Hamas situation.<p>Are there any developments in that field?
If one attempts to scratch the facade of a "great" long-ruling leader one will be torn down with all available means. Regardless whether the leader is a chancellor of a developed country, member of a major political dynasty in superpower country, or a head of a poor authocratic state. Only difference is Belarus cannot afford to buy some positive press. Go ahead western world, agitate these poor youngsters to hop into abyss. They don't seem to be aware that the stake is not IG sponsorship deal but their life.