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0 pointshiatus2y ago0 comments

I know Belarus has ordered at least one plane out of the sky for an arrest, but has the US?

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Of course. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident

From what I’m reading, nobody ordered a plane out of the sky, but several countries (suddenly) excluded a plane from their sky.

Of course, if you’re flying over a landlocked country, and every neighbour blocks you from their airspace, you don’t have many options. (Not that this quite happened, but looked to be going in that trajectory).

joshuaissac2y ago

> nobody ordered a plane out of the sky, but several countries (suddenly) excluded a plane from their sky

Suddenly withdrawing permission for a plane to fly through your sky, after it has already taken off and does not have enough fuel to take an alternative route, has the same effect as ordering it out of the sky.

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notyourwork2y ago

Has it? Who knows? Could it, yes. That is the point OP was making.

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