I read half a dozen times today that no, it wasn’t sabotage that caused a forced landing of Angela Merkel’s plane on its way to the G20 in Argentina shortly after leaving Berlin.
Of course it wasn’t sabotage. It was a Bundeswehr plane, folks. That’s all you need to know. What’s interesting is how the first thing everyone thinks is that it could have, might have, must have been sabotage. Angie, maybe it really is time for you to go.
The plane’s communications system went down and the crew had to use a satellite phone to contact air traffic controllers, Germany’s Spiegel website reported. The problem is thought to have been with an electronic distribution box, which controls both the radio and discharge of aviation fuel.
The German air force denied suggestions that the plane’s electronics could have been sabotaged. “There’s is absolutely no indication of a criminal background,” a spokesman said.
Looks like Frau Merkel is a victim of her own budget cuts. If she had spent 2% of Germany’s GDP on the Bundeswehr, then all of the Luftwaffe’s radio’s should have worked. If the fuel system gave out, which somehow was connected to the same junction box on the plane as the radios, she could have tanked in the South Atlantic.
Observing Hermann 
Looks like Frau Merkel is a victim of her own budget cuts. If she had spent 2% of Germany’s GDP on the Bundeswehr, then all of the Luftwaffe’s radio’s should have worked. If the fuel system gave out, which somehow was connected to the same junction box on the plane as the radios, she could have tanked in the South Atlantic.