- Title: Munich Airport cancels flights over stray passenger
- Date: 28th August 2019
- Summary: MUNICH, GERMANY (AUGUST 27, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF STRANDED PASSENGERS IN CROWDED TERMINAL AT MUNICH AIRPORT DEPARTURES BOARD READING IN GERMAN AND ENGLISH "DUE TO POLICE MEASURES OPERATIONS ARE BEING DISRUPTED" DEPARTURES BOARD SHOWING CANCELLED AND DELAYED FLIGHTS VARIOUS OF POLICE VARIOUS OF STRANDED PASSENGERS IN TERMINAL (SOUNDBITE) (German) STRANDED PASSENGER HEADED FOR SPANISH ISLAND OF MALLORCA, JULIA KNEISSL, SAYING: "We have been here since 7 a.m. We wanted to fly to Mallorca at 9 and now we are flying to Brussels at 2:40 p.m. and then at 5:30 p.m. to Mallorca. So I don't know at what time we will get to our finca. A long day." PEOPLE WALKING PAST STACKS OF MINERAL WATER BOTTLES SUPPLIED BY AIRPORT (SOUNDBITE) (German) STRANDED PASSENGER HEADED FOR NORTHERN GERMAN CITY OF BREMEN, ANN-KATHRIN NETER, SAYING: "We don't know much yet and have not been waiting for too long. Let's see whether we will make it to Bremen. So far nothing has been advertised. We'll just wait. Getting onto a train is no option because travelling eight hours by train -- no thank you." VARIOUS OF STRANDED PASSENGERS IN CROWDED TERMINAL
- Embargoed: 11th September 2019 11:10
- Keywords: Munich airport emergency door lockdown stranded passengers flight delays
- Location: MUNICH, GERMANY
- City: MUNICH, GERMANY
- Country: Germany
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,International/National Security
- Reuters ID: LVA001AU4SN5Z
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:Munich Airport was forced to cancel around 130 flights on Tuesday after police halted check-in and evacuated the building to search for a passenger who mistakenly went through an emergency exit.
Police said they had to order all people out of the airport, including passengers who had already passed through security, to ensure no dangerous items had been left behind.
The missing passenger, a Spanish man who opened an emergency door in terminal 2, was later found in terminal 1.
Check-in resumed after a four-hour shutdown which would lead to significant delays for the rest of the day, the airport said.
The airport handed out water bottles to waiting passengers on a hot, sunny day in Munich.
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