(Ottawa) The plane that flew Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Jamaica for a family vacation broke down earlier this week, prompting the Canadian military to deploy a second plane with a repair team to the plane. Caribbean island.
A Defense Department spokeswoman explained that a maintenance problem on the Royal Canadian Air Force’s CC-144 Challenger was discovered Tuesday, before Mr. Trudeau returned to Canada.
The Canadian Armed Forces dispatched a second plane and maintenance team to Jamaica, which were able to resolve the problem on Wednesday, in time for the Prime Minister, who cannot take commercial flights for security reasons, to return home. on board the original aircraft.
This is the second time in several months that plane problems have kept Mr. Trudeau in another country. Last September, technical problems with the CC-150 Polaris plane left it stranded in India for two days.
The government did not provide information when asked about the causes of the Challenger’s problems in Jamaica.
After saying last month that the family was paying for her stay in Jamaica, the Prime Minister’s Office clarified this week that she was staying for free at a property owned by family friends.
The Prime Minister’s Office also indicated that the federal Ethics Commissioner was consulted on these elements before the trip began and that the family would reimburse the public for the amount that a commercial flight would have cost.