Lufthansa Flight

Approximately 70,000 passengers are at Tel Aviv’s airport, many trying to catch the last flights out of Israel as more airlines suspend passenger and commercial flights to and from Tel Aviv due to escalating tensions in the Middle East, according to Israeli media.

Many fear further flight cancellations and that they won’t be able to return to their home countries.

A Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt to Dubai has been diverted to Rhodes where it landed just before 6 p.m. Monday.

The A330 plane's approach sounded the alarm to the local Fire Service, as there was information of smoke inside the plane, toward the back.

An older A340-300 en-route to Tehran has had to turn back over Sofia, Bulgaria after one of its four engines shut down, reports Simple Flying. 

A Lufthansa flight on it's way to Iran has had to turn back to Germany after one of its engines disabled halfway to its destination.

100 Bulgarians are in Frankfurt without transportation to Sofia due to canceled flight. Wiz Air Airplane was scheduled to take off on December 10 at 15:40 from Frankfurt am Main to Sofia.

After a telephone conversation with the Bulgarian consul in Frankfurt Stefan Dimitrov, Bulgarian citizens were transported from the airport and accommodated in hotels in a radius of about 40 km.

The Bulgarian baby Nikolai, who was born on board of Lufthansa Flight, arrived in Bulgaria.

A Bulgarian baby was born on board of Lufthansa aircraft. Little Nikolay was born on a flight from Bogota to Frankfurt high above the clouds and the Atlantic Ocean, reported BGNES.