North Rhine-Westphalia: defect on the plane: holidaymakers from NRW are stranded in Greece

Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) - Holidaymakers from North Rhine-Westphalia were stranded on Corfu on Thursday. The plane from Preveza in Greece had to make an emergency landing on the Mediterranean island because the landing gear could not be retracted during the return flight to Düsseldorf. The 212 passengers and 7 crew members were able to leave the plane safely, a spokesman for the airline Condor told dpa on Thursday. A replacement plane should fly the vacationers from Corfu to Düsseldorf in the evening.