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A Munich-bound flight of German airline Lufthansa that had taken off in Tbilisi, Georgia landed in Constanta, southeast Romania, Friday morning, after one of the passengers on board complained of chest pains.

Romanian Education Minister Ecaterina Andronescu asked the high school whose students were blocked for 17 hours on the Luton airport near London to file a complaint at the National Authority for Consumer Protection against flight operator Wizz Air, that is responsible for the situation.

A group of students, mainly belonging to I.L. Caragiale high chool in Bucharest are blocked on Luton airport near London and are waiting for the Wizz Air flight to bring them back to Romania.

Romania’s consumer protection watchdog fined ten airliners over 288,000 lei (EUR1=RON3.7420) for having breached passenger rights regulations, the watchdog head Dan Vlaicu told a press conference Tuesday.

Some two hundred passengers who were supposed to take flights to London and Vienna have been stuck on Bucharest’s ‘Henri Coanda’ international airport for several hours on Friday.