mo4ch:>Grounded 6 times in 4 months: Berlin crash-landing is latest woe to strike German govt fleet | Mo4ch News

A German government plane crash-landed in Berlin on Tuesday, blocking the runway and causing airport delays as a growing list of technical faults plagues the official fleet.The Luftwaffe’s Global 5000 jet reportedly experienced technical issues shortly after take off on Tuesday and had a traumatic landing at Berlin’s Schoenefeld airport. While no politicians were aboard, the crew was sent to hospital for unspecified injuries.A spokesman for the German Air Force told AFP that the plane experienced a malfunction and after it turned back “the jet touched the ground with both wings and a controlled landing was no longer possible.”The incident is the latest embarrassing aviation incident for the German government which has seen its planes grounded six times in four months.Merkel’s delayed arrivalLast November, Merkel missed the opening ceremony of the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, when the Konrad Adenauer Airbus A340, flying her from Berlin, experienced electrical problems and was forced to …