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The Dossier Center for Investigative Journalism, along with The Daily Beast and Der Spiegel, said on Wednesday night that they received a copy of an email from Hamas representatives sent to the Minsk airport.
According to the data in the letter, dispatchers in Minsk informed the Ryanair pilot about the information about a possible explosion on the aircraft 27 minutes before the letter itself was received.
According to the Dossier, on May 23 at 12.25. During the Belarusian time, the Lithuanian Airports Administration received a letter from [email protected] threatening to detonate a bomb on flight FR4978.
It says in Russian: “Hamas soldiers demand that Israel stop the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. We demand that the EU withdraw its support for Israel in this war. It is known that the participants of the Delphi Economic Forum will return home on May 23 on flight FR4978. A bomb has been planted on this plane. If it does not meet our requirements, the bomb will explode over Vilnius. Allah Akbar. “
12.30 pm the plane flew into Belarusian airspace. As can be seen from the transcripts of the air traffic controllers’ conversation with the Ryanair pilots, Minsk representatives informed the flight crew in the same minute about the alleged threat of an explosive on board.
12:33 pm the dispatcher informed the pilot that a letter with a warning of the explosive had been sent to various airports. However, as the Dossier discovered, at that time only Lithuanian airports received a letter from “terrorists”.
The Greek Civil Aviation Authority has reported that the Athens airport has not received a letter about a possible bomb.
12:47 pm the plane changed direction and began to fly to Minsk. The official report of the Aviation Board of the Belarusian Ministry of Transport does not provide details on when the email was received.
The file revealed that a copy of the letter from user Ahmed Yurlanov reached the Minsk airport email ([email protected]) at 12:57. local time. That is, almost half an hour after the message sent to the flight crew by dispatchers in Minsk.
At the time, Alexander Lukashenko, speaking in the Belarusian parliament on Wednesday, said that the report on demining had been received at the airports of Athens, Minsk and Vilnius at the same time. After Minsk controllers passed information about the explosive to Ryanair pilots, allegedly received from onlookers, the decision was made to land the plane in Minsk. The MiG-29 fighter jet has risen to accompany you.
