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> It’s odd to me that the Ryanair flight yesterday was already closer to its destination of Vilnius than Minsk when it turned around. Closer, but it had the wr
by slezyr 5y ago
> It’s odd to me that the Ryanair flight yesterday was already closer to its destination of Vilnius than Minsk when it turned around.
Closer, but it had the wrong altitude for Vilnius. They were intercepted earlier. See this visualization
https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1396482250812841986 https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1396482250812841986
- tomp 5y agoVery interesting! Is there a sensible explanation for this? Have they known up-front that the flight is going to be diverted? Or maybe they were radio-ed before, and there was some discussion / negotiation (during which time, they aborted their descent to Vilnius)...
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- wasmitnetzen 5y agoA plane slows down in descent to an airport, so my guess would be that they tried to leave Belarusian airspace as fast as possible, but it wasn't fast enough.