Merkel's plane made an emergency landing in Cologne on the way to the G20 summit

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, due to a technical flaw of the government liner, is forced to halt her flight to Argentina for the G20 summit. As reported Thursday by the DPA agency, in the skies above the Netherlands, the crew decided to return to Germany.

According to his information, the chancellor's theft lasted only about an hour. When, in the airs over the Netherlands, the crew decided to turn back to Germany. The Airbus A340 "Konrad Adenauer" was sitting in Cologne safely. There, Merkel should be transferred to another liner and take a flight to Buenos Aires.

The plane with Chancellor and Finance Minister Olaf Scholz left Berlin at 19 hours local time. In Cologne he landed around 9 pm When Merkel aboard the liner spoke with reporters from the Chancellor 's Pool, according to the DPA, an air hostess addressed it with the words: "It' s important" and l & # 's Called in the meeting room.

Later, the Chancellor returned and announced the need to return to Germany because of a defect of the aircraft. As it was the closest aircraft to Cologne and that there were reserve planes, the crew decided to put the car there.

According to preliminary data, the liner missed some elements of the diet. In Cologne, fire trucks were already waiting for the plane on the runway.

This is not the first incident with the German government aircraft. Recently, the country's president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, had to linger on the flight because of a crushed winged car. Last March, Merkel 's plane broke down before flying to Egypt.