No suspicion of criminal cause behind unscheduled landing of Merkel's plane - German Air Force


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  • Friday, 30 Nov 2018

The Airbus A340 government aircraft carrying Chancellor Angela Merkel and the German delegation to the G20 summit in Buenos Aires which was forced to land shortly after taking off from Berlin sits at the Cologne-Bonn airport, Germany, November 29, 2018. REUTERS/Andreas Rinke

BERLIN (Reuters) - The German Air Force said on Friday that there was no suspicion of criminal activity after a malfunction forced a plane carrying Chancellor Angela Merkel to the G20 summit in Argentina to make made an unscheduled landing.

Earlier German daily Rheinische Post cited security sources as saying the government was checking whether the incident on Thursday had a "criminal background", though the sources added that investigators would typically look "in all directions" after such an incident.

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