Originally Posted by
WillowRun 6-3
One of the roles and responsibilities of EUROCONTROL, as I understand it, is civil-military cooperation in the Eurpoean skies.
No it is not a tpriority as you think, the joint cooperation is mainly there to provide Flexible use of airspace ( FUA) and Free route airspace . Capacity. issues . Military affairs are Soverein issues, outside the scope of the Eurocontrol Convention,
We have nough issues inside Eurocntrol between currents member Staets ( e.g Cyprus- Turkey , or even Spain-UK over Gibraltar etc..) we do not need to be involved with issues of non-members.
As Bidule correctly said, Belarus is not a Eurocontrol member, or even associated .Their ( very competent) Civil aviation Authority really wanted to work closer with Europe , but this incident plus their Governement support for Russia in Ukraine is unfortunately putting them years backwards.
A last point you said :
sending fighter aircraft on pretext of false and maliciously issued "bomb threat" anywhere in European skies is quite antithetical
There was no interception. the media reported one based on a SLF Tweet but there was none . The ICAO report confirms this ( page 35
3.9.2. At 10:15 UTC, when RYR 1TZ was landing, a MIG-29 was recorded 55 km southwest of RYR 1TZ. From the evidence provided by Belarus, no escort or intercept occurred between the MIG-29 and RYR 1TZ and no communications by the MIG-29 was recorded on the radio channels used by RYR 1TZ. According to information provided by the flight crew and cabin crew and, subsequently, the controller, there was no communication, interaction, visual sighting or other knowledge of military aircraft involvement with the flight.
It is one of the major shortomings of PPRuNe : a media report or a post on social media very quickly becomes a fact .
