About 20 passengers were told to disembark Volotea flight V72579 from Luxembourg to Nice on Friday because of a missing crew member.
Because a flight attendant fell ill and could no longer work, the airline had to reduce the number of passengers on board. As a result, some passengers – reportedly those who had boarded last – were asked to disembark and were not allowed to fly.
The unusual incident was first reported on Monday by L’essentiel.
Airport police were deployed to accompany the passengers as they disembarked. However, officers did not have to intervene, and the situation was resolved without incident, according to RTL.
The police did not respond to a request for comment by the Luxemburger Wort.
TF1 was looking for witnesses
According to data from the online portal Flightradar24, the Spanish low-cost airline’s plane took off from Findel at 21:14, one and a half hours late, and landed at the Côte d’Azur just over an hour later.
The French television station TF1 over the weekend had launched an appeal on its Facebook page to find passengers on the flight who could report on the incident.
However, the broadcaster at the time did not provide any background information, leaving people guessing why they were looking for passengers of this particular flight.
(This article has first been published on the Luxemburger Wort. Translated using AI, edited by Lucrezia Reale)