According to one of the passengers on board flight FR 1142, a group of Portuguese passengers, of “five or six people”, were removed from the Ryanair plane by the German police, along with their luggage, after being rude to a flight attendant.

The same passenger told Lusa that the flight from Berlin to Lisbon airport was scheduled to leave the German airport at 20:20 (19:20 in Lisbon), but at 20:38 local time they were informed that the plane would no longer depart “because it was too late” and that everyone would have to disembark.