German authorities are investigating after an Air Berlin pilot aborted his landing at a German airport to make an low pass around the control tower as a way of saying "goodbye" to the bankrupt airline.

German authorities say a passenger jet with 88 people on board overshot the end of the runway on the North Sea island of Sylt, but nobody was injured in the incident.

A number of international airlines continue to cancel flights to Tel Aviv because of ongoing safety concerns amid the fighting between Israel and Hamas.