WATCH: Pope Leo’s Plane Was Grounded Then Spain's King Stepped In To Help
WATCH: Pope Leo’s Plane Was Grounded Then Spain's King Stepped In To Help Even popes have travel delays. Lucky for Pope Leo XIV, King Felipe
WATCH: Pope Leo’s Plane Was Grounded Then Spain's King Stepped In To Help Even popes have travel delays. Lucky for Pope Leo XIV, King Felipe VI offered a way out, and a way home. Leo's Iberia charter, due to take him back to Rome after a weeklong visit to Spain, was grounded by a technical problem Friday, prompting Spain's king to offer his private jet instead. Felipe escorted Leo to his Falcoln on the tarmac at the airport in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, in the Canary Islands.
Leo and members of his delegation boarded the plane and took off, more than three hours after he was originally due to leave. The glitch marked an unusual end to an otherwise successful trip to Madrid, Barcelona and the Canary Islands. Leo pressed his migration message and also inaugurated the new tower of the Sagrada Familia basilica. The Iberia pilot said the engine had failed to start after Leo had boarded. Initial efforts to fix it failed, forcing all passengers to disembark.
Iberia said it was sending another plane from Madrid to fetch the Vatican officials and journalists who were not with Leo on the Falcoln. The Spanish archipelago of the Canary Islands is closer to Africa than the Iberian Peninsula. It was the first time in decades that a papal flight had experienced a problem so serious that it required the pope to change planes. Times Now - Times Now News channel examines news with in-depth analysis. We provide much more than the Get Breaking news, the Latest news, Politics news, of the day.
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