The Royal Canadian Air Force sent a CC-150 Polaris to India from CFB Trenton Sunday night to pick up Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Canadian delegation after the plane that took him there suffered a maintenance problem.
"The safety of all passengers is critical to the RCAF and pre-flight safety checks are a regular part of all of our flight protocols," said the statement.The goal is a Tuesday morning departure, however, a spokesperson for the prime minister said the situation remains fluid.The issue with the CC-150 Polaris was discovered during the preflight checking process on the 36-year-old plane.
The plane was out of service for several months that year. A backup aircraft was used to take Trudeau to the NATO summit in December 2019, but it was grounded in London when the Air Force discovered a problem with one of the engines. But two of the used Airbus A-330s from Kuwait Airways purchased by the RCAF won't include the prime minister's traditional VIP quarters until a retrofit that may not come for two years or more.The widebody jets will replace RCAF's 1980s-era Airbus A-310s also known as the Airbus CC-150 Polaris, the aging aircraft used for the prime minister's trips abroad and for transporting military personnel.
In the meantime, the prime minister's office said Trudeau continues to work from his hotel in New Delhi. It's unclear what this delay means for the prime minister's attendance at the Liberal caucus retreat this week.This plane debacle caps off a tense G20 Summit where Western nations failed to get a strong statement on Russia's invasion of Ukraine or to get countries to agree to concrete targets to aggressively tackle climate change.
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