A aircraft carrying Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva again to Brasilia landed safely at Mexico Metropolis’s Felipe Ángeles airport on Tuesday after circling for hours because of a technical drawback.
The Brazilian Air Drive confirmed the secure touchdown of the aircraft, an Airbus A319, at 7:16 p.m. native time, after 4 hours flying over the airport.
“We landed and everybody is okay,” Brazil’s press secretary, José Chrispiniano, instructed The Related Press in a phone interview.
The aircraft had taken off earlier within the afternoon after the inauguration of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, however skilled a technical drawback after leaving Mexico Metropolis. The Brazilian air pressure mentioned in an announcement that the aircraft needed to eat sufficient gas to have the ability to land safely once more.
It landed virtually 5 hours after taking off.
Lula deliberate to board one other aircraft to return to Brasilia in a while Tuesday.
The Brazilian Air Drive mentioned in its assertion that “security procedures for the issue” had been carried out efficiently, however pilots should “watch for the gas consumption needed for the aircraft to return to the identical airport from which it took off.”
A supply touring on the aircraft mentioned Lula was calm however apprehensive all through the flight, which carried 16 individuals, together with first girl Rosângela Lula da Silva, Cupboard members, lawmakers and the crew.
The supply spoke on situation of anonymity as a result of he was not approved to talk publicly concerning the matter.
Lula arrived in Mexico on Sunday and met with former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. He left for Brazil after attending Sheinbaum’s inauguration on Tuesday morning.
The industrial airport was constructed on a army base by López Obrador after he canceled the partially constructed bigger airport nearer to town. Overseas dignitaries, together with US first girl Jill Biden, had arrived on the airport for the Mexican president’s inauguration.
Brazilian media reported that members of Lula’s employees on the aircraft imagine a chook strike might be behind the technical drawback.
Aviation consultants mentioned of comparable incidents that touchdown protocol after a chook strike requires pilots to fly close to the airport whereas disposing of gas.
In January, a aircraft carrying Lula’s safety group was unable to take off because of a technical drawback throughout a visit to Paraíba state in northeastern Brazil. Brazil’s presidency mentioned after the incident that the staff had been by no means in danger.
