Sunexpress B738 near Bucharest on Jun 12th 2012, unruly passengers

Last Update: June 12, 2012 / 23:17:03 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Jun 12, 2012

Airline
Sunexpress Deutschland

Flight number
XG-1691

Departure
Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Destination
Ankara, Turkey

Aircraft Registration
D-ASXS

Aircraft Type
Boeing 737-800

ICAO Type Designator
B738

A Sunexpress Deutschland Boeing 737-800, registration D-ASXS performing flight XG-1691 from Frankfurt/Main (Germany) to Ankara (Turkey), was enroute at FL370 about 100nm westnorthwest of Bucharest (Romania) when the crew decided to divert to Bucharest's Otopeni Airport following an altercation on board, during which two male passengers attacked and injured a flight attendant. The aircraft landed safely on Otopeni's runway 26L about 20 minutes later, police took the two unrulies into custody, the flight attendant was treated by waiting medical staff.

The airport reported the flight attendant was able to continue duties after treatment.

The aircraft, that had departed Frankfurt with a delay of one hour already, departed Bucharest after about 3 hours on the ground and reached Ankara with a delay of 4:45 hours.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Jun 12, 2012

Airline
Sunexpress Deutschland

Flight number
XG-1691

Departure
Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Destination
Ankara, Turkey

Aircraft Registration
D-ASXS

Aircraft Type
Boeing 737-800

ICAO Type Designator
B738

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