To be sure, you obey the person pointing a weapon at you, instead of ATC. But it's moot; the pilots would likely not have known that these air pirates and Bela

To be sure, you obey the person pointing a weapon at you, instead of ATC. But it's moot; the pilots would likely not have known that these air pirates and Belarus ATC were acting in concert, unless the pirates wanted them to know that. Confusion and chaos are friends to criminals.