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Choice quote for those who will claim (ignorantly or in bad faith) there was no threat to human life and coercion and that this was "completely different" (it wasn't):

"Without enough fuel to fly an alternative route, the Bolivian pilot was forced to make a U-turn and land in Vienna."

The plane would crash and everybody in it would die if they didn't comply. The plane was searched by Austrian police on the ground.

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This only makes sense if they were planning on refueling mid-air.

It says they were denied fuel, not denied emergency landing clearance.

From that point of view the Ryanair jet wasn't denied the option to land so that Protasevich could be arrested so it suffered no threat.

See the ridiculousness of that argument?

What actually happened is that both planes were coerced under the threat of death.

Your false distinction is worthy of the State Department. Jen Psaki would be proud.