Belarusians Air Force Attack Finnish Passenger Aircraft? :: Charter'97 :: News

In 1994 when flying over the territory of Belarus, the pilots of the Finnish jumbo-jet, en route from Helsinki to the Rodos island, noticed an object in the sky, resembling a missile. Finland’s leasing newspaper “Helsinki sanomat” reports that the leadership of the “Finnair” company and the State department for air travels determined not to make the incident public back then. According to the periodical, aero bus A-3000 was full of passengers and flew 10km above the earth’s surface, when both pilots noticed a fiery rocket before their eyes. The captain reported to the Belarusian dispatchers about the unidentified object, but only received a confirmation message, telling that his information was accepted all right.

The news about the incident was made known to the Finnish authorities. However, there followed no information leaks due to the delicacy of the issue.
Nonetheless, the newspaper reported that they forwarded to Belarus an official inquiry about the incident, to which Minsk responded that no missiles or airplanes had been flying in that sector of the sky.
In their turn, the Finnish military specialists assume that Belarus couldn’t have started the rocket, without the Finnish side tracking it down. They maintain that it was a risky control flight of the Belarusian fighter-interceptor on too close a distance.
According to the international air transportation union, over the past 10 years the passenger airplanes 27 times came under attack in the world.