German Govt Buys New Planes After Embarrassing Technical Faults
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published April 11, 2019 | 04:23 PM
The German government has purchased three new Airbus 350 long-haul planes for official trips after a series of embarrassing technical failures with its current fleet, including one which grounded Chancellor Angela Merkel
Berlin, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 11th Apr, 2019 ) :The German government has purchased three new Airbus 350 long-haul planes for official trips after a series of embarrassing technical failures with its current fleet, including one which grounded Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Berlin will pay 1.2 billion Euros ($1.3 billion) for the three A350s, the first to be delivered in 2020 and the remaining two in 2022, the ministry said Wednesday.
"The brand new planes will boost the flight readiness of the defence ministry's long-haul capacities," it said.
Once are delivered, the A340-300s currently in service would be phased out, it added.
Among the embarrassing technical failures that hit the government service fleet in the last months was one in November affecting Merkel.
The chancellor missed the beginning of a G20 summit in Buenos Aires as the plane carrying her from Berlin encountered electrical problems and was forced to land in Cologne.
The "Konrad Adenauer" Airbus was given a complete overhaul following the incident but on its first outing since on April 1, it blew a tyre on landing in New York with Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on board.
The plane eventually had to be towed to its parking space, but the delay meant that Maas missed his first appointments at the UN.
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