The plane carrying President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) from Mexico to Brazil and suffering a technical failure landed at 10:16 pm this Tuesday (1st) at the same airport from which it departed, in Mexico City.
“The VC-1 presidential aircraft landed safely,” the Brazilian Air Force (FAB) said in a statement.
After the problem, as a safety procedure, wait for approximately five hours. The objective was before landing.
The president will return to Brazil on another plane. This is expected to happen this Tuesday. He traveled to Mexico for President Claudia Sheinbaum’s inauguration.
The FAB has not yet released details regarding the technical problem that the plane suffered. He only said that security procedures were carried out to resolve the issue.
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mauro Vieira, the director general of the Federal Police, Andrei Rodrigues, and the economist Gabriel Galípolo, nominated for the presidency of the Central Bank (BC), were among the members of the delegation.
Overflight to burn fuel is considered common in aviation. The measure is necessary to reduce the weight of the plane and ensure a safe landing.
The plane carrying the president is the . The aircraft model is the Airbus A319CJ and was assembled in Hamburg, Germany. Costing R$500 million, the plane holds up to 45 passengers and has a range of 11,000 kilometers.
