Earlier this year, a Ryanair flight had some rather serious problems while flying over Belarus with 2 pax ending up in jail. Much of Europe (including the UK) has recommended against flying passengers over Belarus for the time being
I've just noticed a Ryanair UK flight from Kyiv to Stansted (RK3678, G-RUKB) seems to fly over a corner of Belarus today at approx 1150 GMT / UTC, based on FR24. I know it's not a major corner... but FR24 still shows flying over Belarus sovereign territory. Yes, I know FR24 sometimes interpolates a bit when there are gaps in coverage and it cannot be relied on 100%... but Europe should have good coverage. A 737 doesn't have the fine grained control of a fighter jet... and thus one would presumably want to leave a gap of a few miles from Belarus territory as some sort of "keep away from trouble" margin
Anyone have thoughts ?
Last edited by davidjohnson6; 4th August 2021 at 16:42.