G20-bound Merkel's plane makes emergency landing in Cologne
[BERLIN] German Chancellor Angela Merkel's plane, headed for the G-20 summit in Argentina, made an emergency landing in Cologne on Thursday due to a technical problem, the Chancellery said.
"Following a technical problem, the official plane landed safely in Cologne," it said, without indicating when she could leave again.
The Airbus A340-300, named Konrad Adenauer after Germany's first post war chancellor, was met on the tarmac by fire engines, the German news agency DPA said, adding that Dr Merkel was waiting for a replacement plane to taker her to Buenos Aires.
The plane turned back from the Netherlands and landed in Cologne because it was the only base with a a replacement plane, the news agency said.
AFP
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