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There’s playing check-in chicken after which there’s sprinting across an lively runway to attempt to board your plane with its engines running.
Two men shocked onlookers by attempting to board their flight moments before take off.
The desperate holidaymakers were seen at Cologne Bonn airport in Germany running across an lively runway on Friday, towards a Wizz Air plane sure for Bucharest.
Footage showed them approaching the Airbus A321 jet – amazingly, totally unchecked – after the plane had left its gate and already had its engines running.
Eventually, a member of airport staff walked out and intervened, but not before the lads reached the front of the plane and commenced gesticulating on the cockpit, seemingly attempting to get the pilot to stop.
The lads, aged 28 and 47, had missed the flight sure for Bucharest, Romania, on Friday.
A spokesperson for the airport said: ‘We will confirm that on Friday evening two passengers gained unauthorised access to the apron through an emergency exit after passing through security.’
Officials said the flight’s crew were telling them to return. Eventually, after they were detained by airport staff, they were handed over to German police.
Oliver Hunewinckell, a spokesperson for the Federal Police, said: ‘Criminal proceedings for trespassing have been initiated against the lads.
‘A violation of the Air Security Act remains to be being investigated.’
The plane was briefly delayed, but only took off 17 minutes behind schedule and eventually landed in Bucharest early after making up the delay through the flight.
Reports said there have been delays on the airport’s security gates earlier within the day due to construction work, which led to longer-than-usual queues.
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