Airline Passengers Sue Over Being "Held Against Their Will"

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BERLIN (Reuters) - Six German airline passengers who said they were being
held against their will on an aircraft stuck on the runway for hours during
a snowstorm have filed "false imprisonment" charges, German police said
Saturday. 
The passengers filed charges against the pilot of a British Airways
Berlin-London flight that sat on the runway for seven hours before it could
take off, a federal police spokesman said. 

Passengers boarded the plane at Berlin's Tegel airport at 7 a.m. Thursday,
but snow and ice delayed their takeoff. At 11:30 a.m. a man named Ingo Q.
called a police emergency hotline on his cell phone and said he felt as if
he was being "held hostage," the tabloid Bild reported Saturday. 

Police boarded the plane and Ingo Q. ran forward and screamed "I want to get
out of here." But only three people who only had hand luggage were allowed
to leave the plane. 

Shortly after noon, Ingo Q told police again that he wanted to leave the
aircraft, still waiting on the snow-covered runway. Ingo, his wife and
another couple from Biesdorf near Berlin were allowed off the plane at 12:48
p.m., and it finally took off at 2:36 p.m., seven hours late, Bild said. 

The Berlin police spokesman said it was an unusual incident. "The plane
stood there for a long time ... It's difficult to say whether the passengers
are allowed off or not. It's something they have to work out with the
captain." 

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