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Ryanair Flight 4978

2021 aviation incident over Belarus and arrest of journalist Roman Pratasevich
Event aircraft_hijacking Q106949910

Facts

19 properties
Instance of
aircraft hijacking, passenger flight, forced landing[3][4]
Country
Belarus[2]
Location
Minsk National Airport[7]
Part of
hijacking of Roman Pratasevich[8]
Facet of
hijacking of Roman Pratasevich[13]
Destination point
Vilnius Airport, Minsk National Airport[17][18]
Different from
Evo Morales grounding incident[20]
Flight number
FR4978[21]
Item operated
SP-RSM[5]
Number of arrests
2.0[22]
Number of deaths
0.0[11]
Number of injured
0.0[14]
Number of participants
171.0[12]
Operator
Ryanair[6]
Partially coincident with
hijacking of Roman Pratasevich[15]
Point in time
May 23, 2021[10]
Start point
Athens International Airport "Eleftherios Venizelos"[16]
Target
hijacking of Roman Pratasevich[9]
Vessel
Boeing 737[19]
🏷️ Also known as
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🔖 Identifiers · 4
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
GDN SP-RSM 1.jpg ↗
BBC News topic ID
c6mrww6k846t
BBC Things ID
a7dcb8de-d5ec-4bb1-9f86-9ef4b9959df8
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/11q1v1tj_7

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🔗 Connections
Destination point 2
Vilnius Airport, Minsk National Airport
Instance of 2
aircraft hijacking, forced landing
← Significant event 2
Roman Protasevich, Sofia Sapega
Country 1
Belarus
Different from 1
Evo Morales grounding incident
Location 1
Minsk National Airport
Operator 1
Ryanair
Start point 1
Athens International Airport "Eleftherios Venizelos"
Vessel 1
Boeing 737
← Different from 1
Evo Morales grounding incident
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Summary

Ryanair Flight 4978 is an aircraft hijacking[1].

Related Entities

Belarus Roman Protasevich Ryanair

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . The Aviation Herald. Retrieved . avherald.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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