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by FeeJai
1850 days ago
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They might have been intercepted by military. It is doubtful that they would have been shot down, but it would have been legal to do so. The big difference is: No one forced them to land at a specific location -- they could have turned around and fly all the way back to Russia had they desired to do so. They landed in Austria because they decided to go to a neutral country and that they wanted to avoid NATO.
It is fairly obvious that not letting someone enter is very different from letting enter and then coerce. |
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Not sure if it's that simple, the plane has limited fuel and if they are banned from most of Europe's airspace on the way back it might become inevitable to choose between unauthorized entry or crashing down. And that's assuming Russia would also not ban them, which is also a risk when you're already in the air.