Security scare briefly halts flights to, from Berlin airport
Police clear terminal in Tegel to investigate a suspicious suitcase that proves to be ‘harmless’
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An Airbus 320 aircraft of Lufthansa's low-cost subsidiary Germanwings, at Berlin's Tegel airport August 29, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/DPA/STEPHANIE PILICK)
BERLIN — Flights to and from Berlin’s Tegel airport were briefly suspended Saturday after police cleared a terminal to investigate a suspicious suitcase.
The airport operator said shortly after midday that flights to Tegel were being diverted as officers examined a piece of unclaimed baggage at Terminal B.
About 20 minutes later the operator and federal police announced flights would resume.
German news agency dpa cited a police spokesman saying the suitcase had proved to be “harmless.”
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