Germanwings Airbus A319 was left with no other option than to make a detour to Stuttgart as the flight was running dry of fuel.

The flight which was on its destination to Venice from Cologne carrying 123 passengers and five crew members made a landing in Stuttgart on Saturday when the plane began to lose oil and the pilots shutting down one of the engines.

The airline said, “This is a standard safety procedure. It was not an emergency landing”.

It is understood that the technicians are examining the flight.

This was another close call for the German-owned airline company, Lufthansa, as another flight ran by it was compelled to make a non-routined landing in Venice to accommodate to the needs of two unwell passengers.

The Germanwings Airbus en route to Hanover from Rome made a landing in Venice on Friday.

A professor from Rome, Eugino Bartolini, told the Il Messaggero newspaper that a female passenger seated in the row behind him seeked help for “apprehension” and “fear of flying.”

“We saw the plane gradually descending and then Venice’s lagoon appeared. When the plane landed, the captain told us over the microphone, in English, that a crew member and passenger were unwell and so he had decided to land at Marco Polo,” said the professor.

The two unexpected landings pose yet another challenge for the budget carrier that has already been under scrutiny over the Germanwings passenger jet carrying more than 150 people that crashed in the French Alps region as it traveled from Barcelona to Duesseldorf.

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