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At least one Dane among Alps crash victims

At least one Danish citizen was among the 150 passengers on board an airbus A320 that crashed in the French Alps on Tuesday.

Published: 24 March 2015 20:12 CET
At least one Dane among Alps crash victims
A helicopter participates in rescue efforts on Tuesday in the southeastern French town of Seyne after a Germanwings A320 crashed, killing all 150 people on board. The jet had taken off from Barcelona
The Danish Foreign Ministry's citizen services department (Borgerservice) said late on Tuesday that at least one Dane was among the 150 feared casualties of a Germanwings plane crash near the town of Dignes in the southern French Alps. 
 
 
The Foreign Ministry confirmed the Dane’s presence on the plane to TV2 News and said that it could not be ruled out that more Danish citizens may have been on board. 
 
The Germanwings plane was heading from Barcelona in Spain to Düsseldorf in Germany when it crashed around 11am on Tuesday. All 144 passengers, including 16 German school pupils and two babies, and six crew members were believed to have died.
 
 
Among the known passengers were 45 Spaniards and 67 Germans. 
 
The Foreign Ministry said that it was in close contact with German and Spanish officials and that the relatives of the Danish passenger had been notified. 
 
 
For much more on Tuesday's plane crash in the French Alps, visit The Local France, The Local Germany and The Local Spain.
 
Family members of an aircrash victim clasp one another at Barcelona's El Prat airport on Tuesday. AFP PHOTO / QUIQUE GARCIA
Family members of an aircrash victim clasp one another at Barcelona's El Prat airport on Tuesday. AFP PHOTO / QUIQUE GARCIA

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UPDATE: Ryanair passenger jet makes emergency landing in Berlin over ‘fake bomb threat’

Polish police said Monday they were investigating a fake bomb threat that forced a Ryanair passenger plane travelling from Dublin to Krakow to make an emergency landing in Berlin.

Published: 31 May 2021 09:17 CEST
Updated: 31 May 2021 17:00 CEST
UPDATE: Ryanair passenger jet makes emergency landing in Berlin over 'fake bomb threat'
A Ryanair flight making an emergency landing

The flight from Dublin to Krakow made the unexpected diversion after a reported bomb threat, German newspaper Bild Zeitung said.

“We were notified by the Krakow airport that an airport employee received a phone call saying an explosive device had been planted on the plane,” said regional police spokesman, Sebastian Glen.

“German police checked and there was no device, no bomb threat at all. So we know this was a false alarm,” he told AFP on Monday.

“The perpetrator has not been detained, but we are doing everything possible to establish their identity,” Glen added, saying the person faces eight years in prison.

With 160 people on board, the flight arrived at the Berlin Brandenburg airport shortly after 8 pm Sunday, remaining on the tarmac into early Monday morning.

A Berlin police spokesperson said that officers had completed their security checks “without any danger being detected”.

“The passengers will resume their journey to Poland on board a spare aeroplane,” she told AFP, without giving more precise details for the alert.

The flight was emptied with the baggage also searched and checked with sniffer dogs, German media reported.

The passengers were not able to continue their journey until early Monday morning shortly before 4:00 am. The federal police had previously classified the situation as harmless. The Brandenburg police are now investigating the case.

Police said that officers had completed their security checks “without any danger being detected”.

“The Ryanair plane that made an emergency landed reported an air emergency and was therefore immediately given a landing permit at BER,” airport spokesman Jan-Peter Haack told Bild.

“The aircraft is currently in a safe position,” a spokeswoman for the police told the newspaper.

The incident comes a week after a Ryanair flight was forced to divert to Belarus, with a passenger — a dissident journalist — arrested on arrival.

And in July last year, another Ryanair plane from Dublin to Krakow was forced to make an emergency landing in London after a false bomb threat.

READ ALSO: Germany summons Belarus envoy over forced Ryanair landing

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