US aviation officials urge crews caution over Belarus

Bloomberg

US aviation officials urged flight crews operating over Belarus to exercise “extreme caution,” but stopped short
of a ban on overflights of the region.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a so-called notice to airmen in the wake of the forced diversion of an airliner carrying a political opponent of that nation’s government.
The European Union’s air-safety regulator advised airlines to avoid Belarus airspace after the diversion of a Ryanair Holdings Plc flight.
The FAA notice applies to US passenger flights, not cargo operations. The agency said it is continuing to evaluate the situation “and the potential for Belarus to repeat similar actions to what occurred on May 23 in the future,”
it said.