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.
A German government plane was forced to turn back and make an emergency landing at a Berlin airport shortly after taking off, resulting in chaos for air passengers.
A plane crashed in Germany on Sunday killing three people, police said. One of Russia's richest women was identified by the company she co-owns as among the victims.
Chancellor Angela Merkel is due to arrive in Buenos Aires on Friday evening, far later than planned but still in time to attend a G20 dinner after "serious" technical problems forced her plane to
make an emergency landing, prompting questions of sabotage.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was expected to fly out to the G20 summit in Argentina on Friday after her original flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Cologne due to a technical problem.
An Austrian Airlines plane flying from Vienna to Frankfurt had to turn back shortly after take-off due to smoke in the cockpit, the carrier said on Tuesday.
Four Germans were killed in Slovenia on Thursday when their small plane crashed, local police said, with internet millionaire Thomas Wagner confirmed as being among them.
When a private jet crashed shortly after take-off on Thursday, an Iraqi veterinarian living in a nearby refugee shelter ran to the rescue - dressed only in boxer shorts and a T-shirt.
As the one year anniversary of the Germanwings disaster approaches, the German school which lost 16 students is hoping another language exchange can help to heal the wounds.
UPDATED: A flight from Berlin to Hurghada, Egypt was forced to land early in Budapest after receiving a bomb threat, but no explosives have been found on board.
Updated: German airline Lufthansa said it will cancel 290 flights later Friday, the first day of a planned week of walkouts by cabin staff in a long-running dispute over cost-saving measures.
An Air Berlin flight from Düsseldorf to the Greek island of Kos was forced to make an unexpected landing in Munich on Monday when it turned out that the plane had a hole in its wing.
A drunken man forced a Ryanair Boeing 737 to land in Berlin after making repeated threats to the crew that he had a bomb on board, police reported on Tuesday.
Traffic on the A43 in North Rhine-Westphalia was blocked after a light aircraft slammed into the side of the motorway during an emergency landing, it was reported on Thursday.
UPDATE: Two men died on Friday afternoon when a plane crashed in Bremen, causing a fire and a series of explosions in a warehouse near the city's airport.
