More than 100 passengers were stranded at Stuttgart airport after a co-pilot was found drunk in the cockpit just before takeoff.
Police entered the cockpit and found the 40-year-old man in a “highly intoxicated condition” on Friday evening. Stuttgart prosecutors immediately suspended the copilot’s flying licence and fixed bail of €10,000 (£9,000).
The German news agency DPA reports that all 106 passengers were accommodated at hotels on Friday night.
The airline also said it would launch an internal investigation and would “act accordingly, taking the necessary and consequent measures”.