The aircraft, with Annalena Burbock on board, circled before landing and was delayed by 20 minutes.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock’s plane only made it to Tbilisi on the second attempt. The company announced this on March 24 Sakarnavigation.
It should be noted that the incident occurred during the politician’s first official visit to Georgia.
“Yesterday at around 23:00 hours Tbilisi, the aircraft of the German Foreign Minister Airbus A340-300 landed at Tbilisi International Airport in its second attempt,” the company said in a statement.
Wherein Sakarnavigation definitely denying the information disseminated by the German publication Spiegel that the plane had problems due to the fact that another plane was on the runway.
According to the Georgian company, the runway is completely free, and the decision to go around was made by the pilot, and this is a normal practice in civil aviation, not considered an incident.
According to the German embassy in Tbilisi, Burbock is scheduled to meet with President Salome Zurabishvili, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and Georgian Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili as part of his visit to Georgia.
The head of the German Foreign Ministry also plans to hold meetings in Tbilisi with Georgian students, representatives of non-governmental organizations and the opposition. In addition, Burbock intends to visit the border of South Ossetia and get acquainted with the work of the EU observer mission.
Earlier, the German edition of Spiegel reported that the first landing of the aircraft failed due to the fact that the runway was blocked by another aircraft. The publication states that the plane of the head of the German Foreign Ministry, which should have landed at Tbilisi International Airport at 23.00, but later landed at 23.20.
It will be remembered that in March last year, Polish President Andrzej Duda’s plane did not fly to Rzeszow and made an emergency landing in Warsaw.
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Source: korrespondent
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