Overview
- Heavy snowfall in February left six Lufthansa Group aircraft on Munich Airport’s apron with about 600 passengers aboard who were unable to take off and could not be bused back to the terminal.
- The Staatsanwaltschaft Landshut announced on July 2 that its review of the police report has been closed without result because investigators found no sufficient evidence of prosecutable conduct.
- Police opened their review after a likely uninvolved third party filed a request through the Bavarian state criminal police contact form, and no criminal complaints from affected passengers were received.
- Airport officials said operational shortfalls included a failure to summon nearby airport firefighters and a lack of buses to return passengers, and that a special late-night flight permission had put planes on the roll field until about 1:00 a.m.
- Lufthansa offered voluntary compensation and apologized even though EU rules do not require payment for weather-related delays, and both the airline and Flughafen München have pledged clearer escalation rules and closer operational cooperation to prevent repeats.