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Belarus hijack poses threat to all civil aviation, UK says

London | Britain has directed its airlines to suspend flights over Belarus, as Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told MPs the state-sponsored hijack of a Ryanair flight on Sunday was “a danger to civilian flights everywhere”.

In a warning that will resonate even in Australia, Britain’s Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Tom Tugendhat told Parliament the incident affected everyone getting onto a plane.

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Hans van Leeuwen is international economy editor for The Telegraph UK. He was previously The Australian Financial Review’s Europe correspondent.

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    Original URL: https://www.afr.com/world/europe/belarus-hijack-poses-threat-to-all-civil-aviation-uk-says-20210525-p57usb