<p>German Chancellor Angela Merkel had to fly from Berlin to New Delhi in a military cargo plane on Sunday, as her special aircraft was grounded following a technical glitch. <br /><br /></p>.<p>The German Chancellor was scheduled to arrive in New Delhi at 9:50 pm on Sunday. <br /><br />But her flight was delayed as ‘Konrad Adenauer’, the specially equipped Airbus A340 she generally flies in, developed a technical glitch just before it was to take off with her and her entourage, including six federal ministers of Germany, apart from officials, business leaders and journalists.<br /><br />Sources here said that Merkel and her entourage had to board a military cargo aircraft as engineers in Berlin reported it would take hours to fix the glitch in ‘Konrad Adenauer’, named after Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer, Germany’s first post-war chancellor.<br /><br />Merkel and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will jointly chair the third Indo-German Intergovernmental Consultations (IGC) in New Delhi during her three-day visit. <br /><br />The two leaders will be in Bangalore on Tuesday when she will visit the innovation centre as well as vocational training centre of German company Robert Bosch GmbH.<br /><br />Merkel also had troubles while flying to New Delhi in 2011 to meet the then prime minister Manmohan Singh and jointly chair with him the first Indo-German IGC. <br /><br />Tehran had delayed permission for her aircraft to fly over Iran to reach New Delhi. Her aircraft had to turn round and circle over Turkey, before permission was finally granted - just before it had run out of fuel. The issue had turned into a diplomatic tiff between Germany and Iran. Tehran’s envoy to Berlin was summoned to the foreign ministry of the German government where senior officials lodged a strong protest over “breach of international protocol” by Tehran.<br /></p>
<p>German Chancellor Angela Merkel had to fly from Berlin to New Delhi in a military cargo plane on Sunday, as her special aircraft was grounded following a technical glitch. <br /><br /></p>.<p>The German Chancellor was scheduled to arrive in New Delhi at 9:50 pm on Sunday. <br /><br />But her flight was delayed as ‘Konrad Adenauer’, the specially equipped Airbus A340 she generally flies in, developed a technical glitch just before it was to take off with her and her entourage, including six federal ministers of Germany, apart from officials, business leaders and journalists.<br /><br />Sources here said that Merkel and her entourage had to board a military cargo aircraft as engineers in Berlin reported it would take hours to fix the glitch in ‘Konrad Adenauer’, named after Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer, Germany’s first post-war chancellor.<br /><br />Merkel and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will jointly chair the third Indo-German Intergovernmental Consultations (IGC) in New Delhi during her three-day visit. <br /><br />The two leaders will be in Bangalore on Tuesday when she will visit the innovation centre as well as vocational training centre of German company Robert Bosch GmbH.<br /><br />Merkel also had troubles while flying to New Delhi in 2011 to meet the then prime minister Manmohan Singh and jointly chair with him the first Indo-German IGC. <br /><br />Tehran had delayed permission for her aircraft to fly over Iran to reach New Delhi. Her aircraft had to turn round and circle over Turkey, before permission was finally granted - just before it had run out of fuel. The issue had turned into a diplomatic tiff between Germany and Iran. Tehran’s envoy to Berlin was summoned to the foreign ministry of the German government where senior officials lodged a strong protest over “breach of international protocol” by Tehran.<br /></p>