It has been a terrifying weekend at Hamburg Airport, as there was an armed hostage situation revolving around a child custody case. Fortunately after 18 hours, the situation has been resolved, and no one was injured.
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Airport remains to be closed. From the aviation standpoint it’s interesting to see inbound aircraft being diverted to HAJ.
Many aircraft are stuck in HAM since yesterday evening.
Who is actually paying for all the financial damages in these situations? Is that the risk of the airlines, airport or this psycho?
It always ends up with the airlines who have to pay for rebooking and accommodation, even if compensation isn’t due. The EC Regulation needs to be reviewed so in such cases passengers should refer to their insurance.
With all due respect before you categorize someone as a “psycho” understand what psycho means. It would mean a lack of empathy and clearly he is able to have feelings since he is doing this for his kid. With all due respect.
This an often overlooked complication of child custody with a dual national parent. Each parent requires consent from the other to take the child abroad to prevent child abduction.
Jordan he is using his child as a shield to accomplish what he wants. Traumatizing a 4 year old is not an example of someone with good mental health. Without the kid police would have quickly resolved this insanity.
A guy who does this to all the people at an airport is a textbook example of Lack of Empathy. and he's not "doing this for his kid". No empathetic person believes this behaviour benefits his child. I'm a pretty thoughful person and I'm not sure psycho was an inappropriate label in this case. Firearms? Molotov cocktails? On the apron?
He broke into an airport, drove his car under a plane full of people, threw Molotov cocktails out of the window and held his child hostage all because he wanted to board a flight.
Does this sound like sane behavior to you?
In some other countries he would have been shot the moment he fire the shots or threw Molotov cocktails in an airport.
Especially if that person is from a foreign origin.
You are a not too subtle racist troll. Your handle suggests you are a troll. This scenario has played out over and over with white guys in the Midwest. Ben, please erase this person's comment.
Relevant detail, as one would have thought otherwise that was more BMW behavior
Not sure that poking fun at such a serious situation is appropriate, Never in Doubt.
Really, the name you choose is an exetive? Have a little class and respect. When I see something like that, it reminds me of a snot-nose fool with a pair for undescended testicles.
No, VW drivers are chill. It's the opposite of people who need to show off. Definitely a BMW behaviour.
Luckily we're not some other countries and we try to avoid solving stuff by shooting people, don't kill a kidnapped child just to get airport up and running, and certainly don't take into account whether someone is of "foreign origin" when deciding how to deal with them. That's reserved for third world countries.
Nothing to do with dual nationals, the same applies with "single national" parents.
I think the point here was that not everyone's who's not sane is a psychopath. There are many other diagnoses.
Airlines are free to insure themselves against events like this if they wish so. Why should passengers make their own arrangements when they already paid the airline to get them from A to B? It's not like passengers are any more responsible for this than the airline.
I’m surprised it was possible for the driver to get on the runway with his car.