The canceled visit is just the latest in a string of official trips to be affected by problems with government planes.
BERLIN — German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock was forced Tuesday to call off a foreign policy trip to the Pacific region after two failed attempts to fly from the United Arab Emirates to Australia on a government aircraft.The canceled visit is just the latest in a string of trips by German officials to be affected by problems with aging government planes. Some experts have ascribed the problems to the policy of buying used aircraft to economize.
A spokesperson for the Luftwaffe, Germany’s air force, said Tuesday that it will decommission the two aircraft as soon as possible, rather than by the end of 2024, as was originally planned. Then-Chancellor Angela Merkel and her finance minister, now chancellor, Olaf Scholz, were traveling on the Adenauer to the Group of 20 summit in Buenos Aires in 2018 when they had to make an emergency landing at Cologne Bonn Airport in Germany. On that occasion, the entire radio system failed because of a maintenance error. Both arrived late in Argentina after flying commercial via Spain — much to the surprise of business-class passengers on the Iberia Airlines flight.
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