How Was Special Operation On Board of Belavia Aircraft Flying to Munich Carried Out?

The State Border Committee refuses to comment on the situation.

State Border Committee has not yet commented on the situation with Belavia flight to Munich, the official representative of the agency, Anton Bychkouski, said, naviny.by reports.

The plane of the national airline was to leave Minsk at 12.30 on January 24. However, the flight was delayed by about three hours. According to the Flightaware website, the Belavia plane turned around and landed at 17.39 at Hrodna airport . The plane took off from Hrodna at 19.26 (Belarusian time) and landed in Munich - at 19.01 (local time). As a result, the delay was about eight hours.

According to portal tut.by, referring to the passengers of this flight, six to eight people were taken off the board in Hrodna.

"A man in uniform came in and said: "I'm going to call some names, you'll take your stuff and come with us." He named six people, but in fact they are two families," - one passenger said.

According to him, two couples were asked to go out, both of them were about the same age - about 50 years old. At that one of the couples flew together with two girls, who "looked 12 to 16 years old".

According to the passenger, two more names were called after a while, these passengers were also asked to leave the board. About 20 minutes later, a man came in with his face covered with a scarf and offered all passengers of the flight to get off the plane with their belongings.

"We got off to the bus, but it didn't go anywhere, just closed the doors, we were standing there. At that moment we could see that the masked man was searching the plane," - the interlocutor said.

One of the passengers noticed that those who were taken off the flight were staying together until the flight departure, communicating. "They were having a cultural vacation. They were spending their pleasure time in a civilized way, a little bit noisy, but everything was within the framework of decency," - he said.

After that, the plane continued flying: "The pilot announced that the 'malfunctions' had been fixed, we will fly to Munich, but without the people taken off the flight".