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Hold up. Downed a plane is different from grounded a plane. I don't know the Belarusian case, but either you misused the word or they are very different.

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They forced the plane to land in Belarus by threatening it with fighter jets while it was nearly out of their airspace.

IIRC they pretended there was a bomb threat or some other nonsense.

"Downed" is usually understood as "shot down".

Grounded a plane, yes, sorry. I meant they forced it to land (in the US case, by having neighboring countries close their airspace mid-flight).

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