May 24th - What are the Implications for Ryanair Forced Landing?
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
The Independent
3.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Ryanair plane forced to land in Belarus: what are the implications?
After the scare, how do the airlines stack up for safety?
Race to Spain gets under way: but how much “amberlust” is there?
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| 0:28.1 | or pelvic health specialist. Hello and thanks for joining me. It's Monday the 24th of May and |
| 0:36.7 | here's the very latest on travel and destinations |
| 0:39.5 | from the Green List. After a Ryan airplane was forced to land in Belarus, what are the implications? |
| 0:48.0 | And after that, scare, how do the airline stack up for safety? The race to Spain gets underway, but how much |
| 0:57.4 | ambolust actually is there? I've been counting up the flights. This podcast is completely free, |
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| 1:22.3 | Ryanair Flight 4978 took off perfectly normally from Athens Airport on Sunday morning, bound for Vilnius in |
| 1:32.4 | Lithuania. It's a flight of two hours, 50 minutes, and the plane basically goes due north. It goes over |
| 1:39.5 | Bulgaria, over Romania, over Western Ukraine, and over Belarus, before landing at Vilnius, |
| 1:47.7 | the capital, about two hours, 50 minutes after departure. Very straightforward, |
| 1:53.9 | except it wasn't yesterday. As you no doubt will have heard, the plane was in northern Belarus, overflying the country, |
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