Luftfahrt: Flugbetrieb in Nürnberg läuft nach Alarm wieder

Nürnberg. An apparent hijacking alarm at a holiday aircraft halted the operations at Nuremberg Airport – after being cleared, the flight activity returned to normal. Since just after 1:30 PM, aircraft could take off and land at the airport again, said a spokesperson at the airport. "The passengers are still on board," said a police spokesperson shortly after the clearance.

"Everything is fine with the passengers. The pilots are fine too." "We are checking whether everything is fine with the aircraft and the personnel," said the spokesperson about the response of the emergency forces. Details about the numbers of the response units were not disclosed, but special forces had been involved. Earlier, the police had blocked the airport and assumed an emergency situation.

The supposedly in trouble aircraft had sent the emergency code "7500" before its safe landing in Nuremberg, which stands for a hijacking case. It possibly had been a malfunction of the radio equipment in the cockpit that led to this, said a police spokesperson, because after sending the code the pilot of the aircraft, which came from the Greek island of Corfu, could not be reached by radio anymore.