Overview
- Cabin crew on Lufthansa flight LH1843 reported that a 30-year-old passenger repeatedly took her Chihuahua out of its approved carrier during the flight from Valencia and ignored requests to stow the animal.
- After the aircraft landed in Munich the crew alerted Bundespolizei, who escorted the woman to a station and launched an administrative offense procedure under the Luftsicherheitsgesetz.
- Lufthansa excluded the passenger from her planned onward flight because she refused to comply with safety and animal-transport rules.
- Authorities were unable to collect a security deposit because the woman was reported to be without funds, and no criminal charges or further detention were reported in the press release.
- German aviation rules require animals to travel in approved containers and the incident highlights how airlines and Bundespolizei use administrative measures to enforce those rules at airports.