German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s plane to the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, had to suddenly turn around and land at Cologne airport due to a problem in “some electronic systems,” the German newspaper Bild reported.
“A technical problem” caused Merkel’s Airbus to abort its planned 15-hour flight to Argentina only an hour after takeoff. Bild reported that firefighters awaited the plane on the tarmac in the western German city of Cologne as the plane was forced to perform a “hard landing” since it hadn’t drained its 15 hours’ worth of fuel.
Die Feuerwehr erwartet die in Köln gestrandete Kanzlerin. Jetzt warten auf die Ersatzmaschine. #G20Summit #Merkel @RNDnewsroom pic.twitter.com/4CyblkUpW6
— Gordon Repinski (@GordonRepinski) November 29, 2018