Operations at Václav Havel Airport were disrupted on Sunday after a false fire alarm forced the evacuation of hundreds of passengers from Terminal 2, which handles flights within the Schengen area. According to airport spokesperson Denisa Hejtmánková, the alarm was caused by a passenger who accidentally pressed a fire emergency button.
The terminal was cleared as a precaution, and travellers were allowed to return after safety checks confirmed no real danger. The evacuation lasted roughly thirty minutes, during which more than twenty flights were delayed. “We apologise for the inconvenience. Additional staff were deployed at security checkpoints to speed up the reboarding process,” the airport said in a statement cited by iDnes.cz.
Foreign police later confirmed that the incident occurred at passport control, where “one of the passengers accidentally damaged the fire alarm,” said police spokesperson Josef Urban.
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