Shortly after 8.30pm Irish time, multiple people around the airport reported bluish pinpricks moving across the sky. Within an hour both runways at Munich Airport were closed, 17 departing flights were cancelled and nearly 3,000 passengers were left waiting in the terminal. By morning the airport had reopened, but what happened in those empty hours left the city asking questions it hasn’t fully answered. Inside the terminal: small kindnesses amid confusionInside the terminal, the scene was oddly domestic. “I wasn’t upset—just tired and hungry,” said Anna Mayer, a teacher bound for Vienna whose flight was cancelled.