The series of glitches in the government planes are not broken: Federal foreign Minister Heiko Maas is stranded at the end of his five-day visit to West Africa due to hydraulic damage in Mali.

The machine is of the type A319 was on Thursday evening, not as planned by the Malian capital of Bamako back to Berlin. Maas initially decided to stay in Bamako. The SPD politician wants to fly back on Friday with a replacement machine.

Maas took it well. “I’m now flown more than 300,000 km without any problems,” he said. Eventually, it will catch everyone. The foreign Minister, is since Sunday in West Africa. Mali is his last Station. According to the original Plan, he should land early Friday morning to 4 p.m. in Berlin.

The flight readiness of the German armed forces uses the A319 for Short – and medium-range routes. It has 44 seats and has a range of slightly more than 7000 kilometers. A spokesman for the air force told the German press Agency, on the machine, a hydraulic leak had been detected in an order of magnitude, the “lying outside the tolerance limit”.

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A larger replacement machine of the type A340 will now start on Friday morning at 9 a.m. at Cologne/Bonn airport to Maas and his Delegation to pick up. The Minister can then fly expected to be back with almost 20 hours late on Friday afternoon to Berlin.

In the past few months, there had been breakdowns in the pre-flight readiness. German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) came to late for the G20 summit in Buenos Aires. Development Minister Gerd Müller (CSU) has remained for a long time in Africa, hanging, Federal President of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier was stuck in Ethiopia. And in October, the rodents were placed in Indonesia, machine, Finance Minister, Olaf Scholz (SPD) lame.

The CSU-politician Müller had complained loudly about the glitches. They were a disaster for Germany’s reputation as a High-Tech country, he scolded. The loss of the brand “Made in Germany”. Currently, 14 aircraft from the manufacturer, Airbus, and Bombardier to flight readiness.

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defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen damaged in the meantime, the procurement of three new long machine has been commissioned. “This is also necessary, I think, to remember all,” she said at the beginning of February at the announcement of this step. (dpa)