Angela Merkel's plane makes emergency landing

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's plane, headed for the G20 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 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.

[kchose]

You have to hand it to the Americans for having two identical planes for the president.

[trajanaugustus]

Seems a bit strange to me, wonder who had access to it before leaving Berlin?

[MightyAfricans]

Girl Texts: My parent's aren't home...

[captainpicard]

Migrant mechanics working on her plane.
;)

[mariogutie]

Well this is not the first time the plane had to land do to emerngy. It happen even when the president of the bundes replik travel to Africa. Is time for a dignify airplane. Or perharps the german economy can't afford.

[FabATG]

ALL EUROPE PUT YOUR YELLOW JACKETS AND SET THIS WORLD FREE FROM THOSE THIEFS