Fighter jet 'threatened to shoot down' Ryanair plane carrying Belarus dissident
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mirror.co.ukBelarus threatened to shoot down a packed Ryanair passenger jet which was carrying an exiled opposition activist, it is claimed.
The Eastern European country's regime has been accused of "hijacking" the Ryanair flight and forcing it to make an emergency landing in Minsk on a bogus bomb threat so police could arrest dissident blogger Roman Protasevich.
Michael O'Leary, CEO of the Dublin-based airline, claimed the forced landing was a "state-sponsored hijacking" and that "KGB agents" were on the plane.
Chilling claims that a Belarusian MiG-29 fighter jet, which escorted the Ryanair plane, had been given permission to open fire emerged amid suspicions over the role of up to four mystery Russians on board the aircraft.
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