Berlin: Ryanair plane has to stop over

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Unplanned Ryanair plane landed in Berlin

Photo: Christophe Gateau / dpa

At the Berlin capital airport BER on Sunday evening, federal police officers searched an unscheduled aircraft that landed in between.

At the remote parking position of the aircraft, there were numerous police cars with flashing lights, sniffer dogs searched the passengers' luggage placed on the apron.

The luggage was finally brought inside the airport.

The measures ran until early Monday morning, an end was initially not in sight.

Why the plane of the airline Ryanair, which was on the way from Dublin in Ireland to Krakow in Poland, had to land in Berlin shortly after 8 p.m., initially remained unclear.

For tactical reasons, a police spokeswoman initially did not want to give any further details.

According to media reports, however, a technical defect cannot be the cause of the action.

The 160 passengers were brought to the terminal building and cared for there.

When they could start their onward journey was unclear even in the early morning - the airport had previously lifted the night flight ban on Ryanair flight FR 1901 as a precaution.

Previously, the »BZ« and »Bild« reported and spoke of a bomb threat.

According to this, specialists looked for a suspicious object with dogs, among other things.

There was a similar incident on the route

The »BZ« quotes airport spokesman Jan-Peter Haack as follows: »The Ryanair plane that made an emergency landed reported an air emergency and was therefore immediately given a landing permit at BER.

It is now in a parking position.

The federal police and fire brigade are there. "

It is not the first similar incident on this route.

Last summer, a Ryanair plane had to make a safety landing on its way from Dublin to Krakow because of an anonymous bomb threat.

Irish media reported that nothing was found during the search in Stansted in Great Britain.

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