I feel bad for the passengers and crew, but otherwise this seems well deserved? Belavia’s flight to Barcelona did not go as plannedBelavia is the state airline of Belarus. Yesterday (May 26, 2021), Belavia flight B2869 was scheduled to fly from Minsk (MSQ) to Barcelona (BCN) with 54 people on board. The planned flight of approximately 1,480 miles was performed by an Embraer E195LR, although it did not go as intended. As you can see on Flightradar24, the plane did not land to Barcelona, but where it took off. During the 2-hour, 28-minute flight, the aircraft initially took off the expected route, but as the flight approached the board of Poland it entered a holding pattern. As far as I can tell, the plane circled at least nine times before finally returning straight to Minsk. The flight path for a Belavia’s flight to nowhere So what happenedWe have seen European countries start restricting their airspace to Belavia as it belongs to the government which essentially hijacked a commercial aircraft flying between two other countries. If these restrictions were put in place, you’d think that an airplane just wouldn’t take off. So what went wrong here? According to reports:
With Belavia increasingly facing airspace restrictions, it should come as no surprise that something like this happened. I think, if anything, the surprise is that Belavia did not proactively cancel this flight as restrictions were imminent and this plane could potentially get stuck in another country. At this point, Belavia appears to have canceled all flights to the European Union for Thursday and Friday. Belavia has canceled all European Union flights in the coming days Bottom lineYesterday Belavia, the national airline of Belarus, operated a flight of about 2.5 hours to nowhere. The flight was supposed to go to Spain, but France closed its airspace to Belavia just minutes before the plane took off. Apparently the pilots were only made aware of this when they were about to enter Polish airspace. At this point they entered a pattern on hold. If only Belarusian air traffic control would scrutinize the closed airspace warning as carefully as the propagation of imaginary bombing attacks (to be fair, I recognize that these decisions were made at higher levels) … (Hat tip to Josh) Via https://globalconnekt.com/belavias-2-5-hour-flight-from-minsk-to-nowhere/
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