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Bolt tightening problem on the A400M, the Luftwaffe stops arrivals

(B2) The Luftwaffe, the German air force, has, for the moment, stopped the takeover of two new A400M transport planes from Airbus. This is explained by " recurring technical problems with the machines already used, as well as by the missing characteristics of the new aircraft says Thomas Wiegold of Augergeradeaus. In question, a problem of fixing, screw tightening on the propellers which can damage the plane. " The new aircraft not only has technical defects, but above all does not have the required level of performance writes our colleague from Berlin.

(NGV)

Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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