German breakdown air
Robert Habeck is stranded in Lisbon
Fuse out, start postponed: Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck is not coming back to Berlin as quickly as he would like. The culprit: Once again a government plane.
Now the Vice Chancellor has also been hit. Economics Minister Robert Habeck is stuck in Lisbon. The reason is a technical defect on the A350 when it is ready to fly. Even before the plane took off, the captain informed the minister and his fellow passengers that the fuse had tripped due to a technical defect in the ignition circuit of one of the engines. The cause is currently being investigated. Until then, the plane is not allowed to take off.
Habeck is on his way back from the “Web Summit”, one of the world’s largest meetings of the startup and high-tech scene in Portugal’s capital Lisbon. For the first time ever, the minister traveled with an all-female business delegation.
Robert Habeck in Lisbon
Habeck will now not return to Berlin that night as planned, but rather later on Wednesday. It is currently unclear whether he will be able to be in the Bundestag in time for the Chancellor’s government declaration.
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The defect cannot be due to the age of the aircraft. The A350, christened Kurt Schumacher, was only handed over to the Ministry of Defense’s flight operations in June of that year. The particularly vulnerable older A340 models had previously been gradually phased out. Several members of the government had repeatedly been stranded somewhere in the world due to breakdowns.
Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock had it particularly spectacular. After a stopover in Abu Dhabi there were problems with the landing flaps. The plane had to return – not without first dumping dozens of tons of kerosene over the Persian Gulf for safety reasons. The then Chancellor Angela Merkel was also often a victim of German Breakdown Air. She once even had to make an emergency landing in Cologne due to a total radio failure.
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Source: Stern
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