For the second time since September final yr, the official plane carrying Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for a go to overseas broke down forcing the deployment of a standby airplane.

In September final yr, whereas in New Delhi to attend the G20 leaders’ summit, Trudeau needed to keep again within the capital for an additional day-and-a-half attributable to hassle with the airplane. This time, nevertheless, he returned to Ottawa from a household trip at a luxurious resort in Jamaica after a technician managed to restore the unique airplane on which he had travelled.

Trudeau left for the resort on December 26 and returned on Thursday. He was accompanied by members of the family together with Sophie Gregoire, from whom he separated in 2023.

The outlet CBC News reported on Friday that the Department of National Defence needed to ship a second airplane to Jamaica after the because the “first aircraft that transported the Prime Minister’s party became unserviceable after arrival.”

Both planes had been CC-144 Challengers operated by the Royal Canadian Air Force. “The second aircraft brought a maintenance team to repair the first aircraft, and remained in the area as a back-up for the Prime Minister’s departure, if necessary,” the report quoted a DND spokesperson as saying.

The downside with the unique airplane was found on January 2 and a upkeep crew despatched to Jamaica the day, and it managed to return it “to serviceability.”

The outlet National Post had reported earlier that whereas Trudeau had initially said he was bearing the price of the journey, the PMO later clarified it was “at no cost” courtesy household mates.

Earlier, final September, a Royal Canadian Air Force’s CC-150 Polaris was despatched to Delhi after a technical snag with the unique flight prevented Trudeau from leaving as scheduled.

As a fallback measure a technician with a substitute half had additionally been despatched to Delhi. That proved the answer to the Canadian PM”s journey woes.

As the Canadian Government scrambled to get its chief again, one more fallback choice was a Challenger plane that can despatched to gather the Canadian Prime Minister and his entourage if neither the unique airplane nor the substitute had been out there for that goal.

The plane presently getting used then by Trudeau is 36 years previous and has brought on issues earlier. In October 2016, it returned to Ottawa half an hour after taking off. Trudeau was then travelling to Belgium.

That airplane was out of service for 16 months and a backup was grounded in London in December 2019 when Trudeau was there for a NATO summit.

The planes concerned within the Jamaica journey had been newer, and had solely been acquired in 2020.