Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's aircraft has broken down during a trip to Jamaica, in his second travel incident in four months. The Canadian Armed Forces said on Friday that they were forced to send a second plane with a repair team to address the issue. Trudeau was on the Caribbean island for a family holiday. Last September, Trudeau's departure from India was delayed by two days because of a mechanical glitch. The PM, who is required to travel on a military plane for security reasons, flew to Jamaica on Dec. 26. The problem was discovered on Jan. 2, CBC news reports. A day later, the second plane carried a maintenance team to repair the first, a spokeswoman for Canada's defense department told the broadcaster. He returned on Jan, 4 as originally scheduled. Both planes were CC-144 Challenger aircrafts, relatively new acquisitions by the Canadian Armed Forces. Trudeau has suffered a string of travel mishaps in recent years. In September, his departure from New Delhi following a G20 Summit was embarrassingly delayed after his plane encountered an unspecified mechanical problem. During his re-election campaign in 2019, a bus carrying journalists collided with the wing of an aircraft chartered by Trudeau's Liberal party. Later that year, he was forced to use a backup plane to attend a NATO summit in London after the original had been damaged in a hangar accident. But a problem was discovered with the backup aircraft and the prime minister had to use a third one to return home. — BBC
