The German armed forces wants to draw consequences from the plane breakdown of German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) at the time of their trip to the G20 summit in Buenos Aires. “The Chancellor came too late to the G20, was bitter,” said defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen (CDU), the “picture on Sunday”. “So will not be repeated, now we have the crews and check the route to the procurement of one or two other planes for long.”
The Federal Ministry of defence presented the newspaper, according to his plans on Wednesday in the Cabinet. The Bundeswehr holds, therefore, the procurement of at least one third length aircraft of the type A330 or A350 route. Currently, the flight has two A340. The cost for the purchase of the A330 or A350 are available, depending on facilities and whether they are needed or acquired according to the report, between 200 and 300 million euros.
defense Minister von der Leyen made it clear that the money had to be provided for the enlargement of the flight readiness in addition from the Federal budget. “Of course, the Transport of the members of the government, to important dates must not go to the expense of the air force, the needs of your Budget for helicopters and planes in the missions,” she told the newspaper.
As an immediate measure, it is Meet, therefore, in the future, in international, particularly important dates such as G20 or Nato, a complete aircraft Crew, as an emergency reserve.
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Merkel had reached the G20 summit in Argentina at the end of November until very late because they had to arrive due to a breakdown of your government aircraft, with a plane of the Spanish company Iberia to the summit. The government machine had to turn around due to a defective electrical component, and in Cologne-Bonn to land. For the breakdown, the failure of one electronic Box was, according to the air force responsible.
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prepared a replacement machine in Berlin, however, these could not be used because of the stopover in Cologne-Bonn is the maximum allowed duty times of the Crew has been exceeded. (AFP)
