The plane in which Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was traveling presented a technical failure when taking off from Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA), after attending the inauguration of Claudia Sheinbaum in Mexico, said the Brazilian Air Force (FAB). ).
At the moment, the BRS1 A319 flight where the Brazilian president is traveling is circling as a procedure to finish the aircraft’s fuel in order to land again at the air terminal to make a change of transportation, so that the president returns to Brazil. .
“After having successfully carried out the safety procedures to solve the problem presented, the pilots wait for the fuel consumption necessary to return to the same takeoff aerodrome, change planes and return to Brazil,” Marcelo Kanitz Damasceno reported in a statement. Lieutenant of the Brazilian Air Brigade.
Various aerial monitoring applications and websites show that the plane where Lula is making the aforementioned turns.
The Brazilian authorities have not yet detailed what the original failure was due to complications during takeoff, but at the moment it does not represent a risk for the Brazilian president in the face of this routine procedure.
“I inform you that the presidential plane VC-1, which transports the President of the Republic on the section between Mexico and Brazil, presented a technical problem after taking off from Mexico City Airport, this Tuesday,” commented Kanitz.
Today, the Brazilian president completed a work tour where he held meetings with former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and attended the inauguration of President Claudia Sheinbaum.
Likewise, Lula participated in the Mexico-Brazil Business Forum, in which points of view were given on the commercial relationship between both nations.
The flight is still flying over the AIFA area, waiting to run out of fuel, since its initial takeoff took place at 2:19 p.m. on Tuesday, October 1st.
