German jets help Korean passenger plane make emergency landing in Stuttgart

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A sonic roar rung over the German city of Stuttgart on Saturday evening, as the Bundeswehr deployed two fighter planes to intercept a Korean Air passenger plane when radio contact cut out.

The 211 travelers on board the Korean Air flight stayed in the airport overnight due to a late-night flight curfew, blocking outbound flights after 11 p.m. On Sunday, they took the final leg of their journey to Zurich by bus, a drive that usually takes around two hours.

The live air flight tracker Flightradar24 highlighted the enormous U-turn the Korean Air flight performed to land in Stuttgart.

On Friday, two Bundeswehr jets followed an Egyptian passenger plane from Hurghada, which had lost contact with air traffic control over the border region between the German states of Hesse and Bavaria.

It was not required to make an emergency landing after it eventually regained radio contact.

A spokesman for the German air force said the most likely reason for the airliner losing contact was that the pilot had simply input the wrong radio frequency.

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