“The ICAO Council acknowledged that the report of a bomb planted on Ryanair flight FR4978 was deliberately false and threatened its safety, and that information about this threat was brought to the attention of the flight crew at the direction of senior officials of the government of Belarus,” the organization’s report says. .
It is noted that neither the bomb nor evidence of its existence was found both during the check before the plane took off from Athens, and subsequently after numerous inspections of the aircraft in Belarus and Lithuania.
Earlier, ICAO sent out to its members a report on the investigation of the incident with the Ryanair aircraft, which made an emergency landing in Minsk in 2021 due to a bombing report.
In turn, the head of the aviation department of the Ministry of Transport of Belarus, Artyom Sikorsky, on the air of the Belarus 1 TV channel, called the organization's report on the investigation of the incident incomplete.