Do countries get the manifest of every passenger that's flying through their airspace? Who knows who's boarded on a plane?
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In regards to the Belarus Forces Down Plane to Seize Dissident; Europe Sees ‘State Hijacking’ I wonder if the Belarus intelligence was handed the manifest as a routine or they somehow got access through it using spyware?
In a more general form of a question, who knows about the manifest? When I buy a ticket on Kayak.com or any other website for that matter who gets to know that I'm flying on that plane? I suppose:
Details may differ significantly from country to country and ignoring that it in many situations is still possible to fly without having to present any form of id when checking in, making it possible to fly with a ticket in a different name, in general:
