Keeping Track of Your Room Numbers

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Hundreds of walls that were designed as fire protection walls were incorrectly built using the wrong materials. More than 600 such walls had to be fully or partially torn down and reconstructed. Automatic windows, which are supposed to close during a fire, were found to have motors that fail above 30 degrees centigrade. The room number system is incorrect - on the third floor there aren't enough numbers for all the necessary place now all rooms have to be re numbered. It seems like the lights might be a kind of malfunctioning despite on the top of the roof that re flashing for no particular reason. I'm quite sure we just spotted the next beadelay, what are those lights flashing for? There is

BER has been built twice - the first time incorrectly, the second time incompletely. We hear from Marco, an engineer who worked on site. Employees were busy stealing copper instead of fixing the fire system. Some managers got rich taking bribes. Informers had their coffee poisoned.

Joel and Jöran drive out to the unfinished BER terminal to inspect the too-short escalators that end with stairs. They were just one of 150,000 mistakes discovered in an audit after the 2012 cancellation. Cables were stuffed together in overloaded enclosures - a fire risk. The sprinkler pipes too small to carry the required water. More than 600 fire walls had to be reconstructed. And the builders forgot to install lightning rods.

Even when it's fixed, BER will need another overhaul: "As soon as they open it they have to modernize it," Marco says. "The technology is old standards. New airports are already building in a different way. This is going to be from the beginning an old airport."

But finally, heads are starting to roll... the wrong heads. The BER supervisory board fires the only people who know what's going on, creating new chaos. Then they fire the CEO Rainer Schwarz, but bungle the paperwork. Will any politician ever take responsibility?

How To F#€k Up An Airport is presented by Radio Spaetkauf and RadioEins. Producer: Joel Dullroy Presenters: Joel Dullroy, Maisie Hitchcock, Jöran Mandik and Daniel Stern Music: Ducks! Artwork: Jim Avignon