An Airbus A340 government aircraft carrying German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her delegation to the G20 summit in Argentina, was forced to land en route after suffering technical problems on Thursday evening, the captain said.
Around an hour into the trip from Berlin, the captain told passengers he had decided to land at Cologne-Bonn airport in northwestern Germany after the “malfunction of several electronic systems”, but said there had been no security risk.
It was not immediately clear when a new aircraft would arrive to continue the 15-hour flight to Argentina.
Merkel and other passengers initially remained on board the aircraft, called “Konrad Adenauer” as mechanics inspected its brakes and several fire engines waited nearby, according to a Reuters reporter on board.
Later, the delegation traveled by bus to a hotel in Bonn. Delegation…
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