Belarus: Belavia aircraft returned to Minsk

A Belarusian passenger plane that had taken off from Minsk According to the data of the specialized flight monitoring site Flightradar24, after returning to Barcelona, ​​he returned to the capital of Belarus, after Poland informed that he may not be allowed to enter the airspace of France, reports APE.

Leaders of European Union member states have instructed their services to propose new sanctions against Belarus and find a way to ban Belarusian airlines from flying over EU airspace.

Flight 2869 of Belarus state-owned Belavia was scheduled to land in Barcelona this afternoon.

“The pilot received information from us that French airspace was closed (…) and he might have had trouble getting in,” said Pavel Lukasiewicz, a spokesman for the Polish Civil Aviation Authority.

Belavia has not commented on the matter.

Earlier in the day, French Transport Minister Jean-Baptiste Jembari said Paris had lifted Belavia’s permit to fly over its airspace. The Belarusian company also said it had been banned from flying to Lithuania, Latvia, France, Sweden, Britain, Finland, the Czech Republic and Ukraine. Poland currently allows Belavia flights. A flight from Minsk landed at Warsaw International Airport at noon.

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