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Masks on board an A400M heading to Madrid

March 25, 2020March 30, 2020 Nicolas Gros Verheyde Humanitarian aid, Airbus, Coronavirus, Spain

(B2)Airbus indicated having mobilized an A24M transport plane on Monday (March 400) to carry out an airlift between Toulouse and the Getafe air base (near Madrid). Objective: to deliver masks to Spain, handed over to the Ministry of Defense.

Loading the A400M (credit: Airbus)

This cargo is part of some " two million masks transported this weekend by a test Airbus A330-800 from Tianjin, China, to Europe ". The industrialist indicates that he wants continue to support with additional flights planned in the coming days in coordination with national authorities.

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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).