Lithuanian helicopter spared by Belarus air defenses 'for humanity reasons'
A Eurocopter 120 chopper was not shot down over Belarus when it penetrated 3 km into the air space deep north of Hrodna from Lithuania on June 28.
According to the information provided by the press-office of the Belarusian Ministry of Defense, the offender was spotted and tracked by aioperatively noticed, the Air Defense Forces and the Military Air Forces were brought to the readiness #1. The Belarusians contacted the Center for Air Space Control of the Lithuanian Military Air Forces. They found out in the end that a helicopter Еurocopter 120 was going along the Vilnius-Warsaw route and flew into the Belarusian air space.
"Considering the received information, as well as the complicated weather conditions for the civil aircraft, as well as the humanity reasons, in the center of which was saving people's lives, it was decided not to shoot down the helicopter. The information about the incident was passed to the Belarusian MFA "for choosing adequate responding measures," states the press-office of the Belarusian Ministry of Defense.
Today it became known that the KGB finished the investigation of the "teddy bears landing" case. On July 4, 2012 a light-motor civil plane with two Swedish pilots flew from the territory of Lithuania and dropped teddy bears urging for freedom of word over Minsk and Ivyanets. The Belarusian KGB started a criminal case upon the fact of the illegal border crossing.
The Belarusian state leader discharged head of the Frontier Committee Ihar Rachkouski and Commander of the Air Forces and Air Defense Forces Dzmitry Pakhmelkin, for this incident. The frontier guard who failed to inform the state border crossing was sentenced to two years of imprisonment in a reinforced-security colony.
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