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On May 23, Ryanair's Boeing 737 with code FR4978, carrying 170 passengers, was forced to divert by a Belarusian fighter jet while flying from Athens (Greece) to Vilnius - the capital of Lithuania. Lithuania), according to Reuters. Specifically, while moving through the Belarusian sky in the middle of the journey from Athens to Vilnius, the plane was suddenly approached by a Belarusian Mig-29 fighter with only 2 minutes left to reach Lithuanian airspace. At that time, the MiG-29 fighter ordered the FR4978 aircraft to divert to the capital Minsk (Belarus) because of the bomb on the flight. After the plane landed in Minsk, the test results showed that there were no bombs as warned. However, the local authorities arrested one passenger on the flight, exiled opposition activist Roman Protasevich, executive editor of the Nexta media channel.