Overview
- An Austrian Airlines A320 at Berlin’s BER, which police cleared on Thursday after a deportee resisted in the rear cabin, saw its forward emergency slide deploy and every passenger ordered off the plane.
- The airline said the flight would reach Vienna about two and a half hours late, with the deployed slide to be changed there.
- After a later reboarding, the carrier reduced the load for safety reasons, and Krone.at reported a cut from 161 to 110 seats that left 51 travelers behind.
- Austria’s Interior Ministry said the man is a Pakistani national transiting through Vienna on the way to Larnaka in Cyprus.
- Germany recorded 22,787 deportations in 2025 with 1,593 aborted after federal police took charge, a pattern now back in view as air removals can fail due to resistance, medical issues, or missing documents.