Ryanair flight 4978 was diverted from its intended destination of Vilnius in Lithuania by a Belarusian fighter plane in May last year
An apparent bomb threat that resulted in the Belarusian air traffic authorities downing a Ryanair flight last year was “deliberately false”, while the air traffic controller who downed the Ryanair flight cannot be contacted, according to a confidential UN report which has been seen by the Business Post.
The new report details a litany of inconsistent evidence presented by Belarusian authorities, as well as multiple examples of evidence being apparently destroyed or no...