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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:


In your efforts to ignore reality, you have forgotten the key term: INTERNATIONAL AVIATION LANGUAGE, not local language.
Calibration units are not discussed mid-air, and have nothing to do with flight control units.
The ICAO language standard adopted in 1951 was in Chicago.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
In your efforts to ignore reality, you have forgotten the key term: INTERNATIONAL AVIATION LANGUAGE, not local language.
Calibration units are not discussed mid-air, and have nothing to do with flight control units.
The ICAO language standard adopted in 1951 was in Chicago.

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I guess that means that ICAO language must be in Chicagoan, because clearly they don't speak English in Chicago, just as we don't speak English in America, we speak "American".

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Your proclamation that International Aviation speaks American English solely at the declaration of Britain is preposterous.

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SIGNYM:
UKRAINE did not receive the emailed threat, UKRAINE didn't know about it, thereforethey couldn't do anything about it. It was sent directly to Vilnius, Lithuania.

Minsk, Belarus was cc:d, at least according to the email service.

Why didn't VILNIUS (LITHUANIA) do anything about it

JSF: As I explained, what could Vilnius do? Vilnius (or Lithuania ATC) had to wait for the plane to switch to their frequency - which the plane was about to do, before being diverted to the farthest airport available. Lithuania cannot switch to the Minsk frequency to interlope on those transmissions.
As soon as the pilot switched to the frequency for Lithuania, they could have been diverted to Kaunas airport - no muss, no fuss.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I agree with KIKI. JSF, you're ASSUMING that it was Belarus that sent the email.

But who benefited from this in the long run?

The west deep state, which was able to use this event to insist on YET MORE sanctions on, and interfering with a Russian partner. (And trust me, they'll eventually be extended to Russia too.)

This parallels the alleged Navalny "poisoning", which was in all likelihood a false flag.

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SIGNYM:
UKRAINE did not receive the emailed threat, UKRAINE didn't know about it, thereforethey couldn't do anything about it. It was sent directly to Vilnius, Lithuania.

Minsk, Belarus was cc:d, at least according to the email service.

Why didn't VILNIUS (LITHUANIA) do anything about it

JSF: As I explained, what could Vilnius do? Vilnius (or Lithuania ATC) had to wait for the plane to switch to their frequency - which the plane was about to do, before being diverted to the farthest airport available. Lithuania cannot switch to the Minsk frequency to interlope on those transmissions.
As soon as the pilot switched to the frequency for Lithuania, they could have been diverted to Kaunas airport - no muss, no fuss.

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So, even tho the plane was just entering Belarus when the threat was received, and was STILL over Belarus when the plane was diverted, you're saying that Vilnius ATC should have taken over control of the airplane while it was in Belarus' airspace?

Or are you saying that Belarus should have done NOTHING and allowed the plane to enter Lithuanian airspace without knowing whether Vilnius ATC had even responded to the threat?

Was there communication between Minsk ATC and Vilnius ATC, where a hand-off would have been even possible? I don't know. YOU don't know.

But you get stuck on irrelevant points and make ignorant suggestions. ONLY AN INVESTIGATION CAN TELL US WHAT HAPPENED.

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Ryanair Flight 4978 was a regularly scheduled international passenger flight from Athens International Airport, Greece, to Vilnius Airport, Lithuania, operated by the Polish subsidiary Buzz. On 23 May 2021, while in Belarusian airspace, it was diverted by the Belarusian government to Minsk National Airport, where two of its passengers, opposition activist and journalist Roman Protasevich and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega, were arrested by authorities. The aircraft was allowed to depart after seven hours, reaching Vilnius eight and a half hours behind schedule.

The act was condemned by the European Union (EU), NATO, the United Kingdom, and the United States, among others, and by some civil aviation authorities, while Russian officials backed Belarus. The EU and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency issued directives halting European airlines from flying over Belarusian airspace.

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