Lufthansa flight LH1644 had been circling above the Polish town of Gdansk for about 90 minutes for "unknown reason", Flightradar24's Twitter reports. The aircraft is an Embraer ERJ-195 en route to Gdansk from Munich, Germany.
Lufthansa flight #LH1644 has been holding near Gdansk for about 90 minutes http://t.co/4SjuEBP0YN Reason unknwon pic.twitter.com/w7WCBDXD24
— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) 29 Март 2015
Michal Dargacz, the Gdansk airport spokesman, told Polish TVN24 channel that due to low visibility in Gdansk Lufthansa decided to divert the airplane to Warsaw
At 6 PM local time (4 PM GMT) it landed safely at Warsaw's Chopin airport.
Commenting on what they called the airplane's strange behavior, Twitter users noted that Lufthansa "blows on cold water" following the deadly crash of another German passenger jet.
Widać jak Lufthansa dmucha na zimne #LH1644
— Piotr Wawrzyńczak (@PiotrekWaw) 29 Март 2015
As the Embraer was circling above Gdansk, two other airlines' planes safely landed there.