Military Sends Second Aircraft After Prime Minister Trudeau’s Plane Breaks Down in Jamaica

Published on January 6, 2024

The plane that flew Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Jamaica for a family vacation broke down earlier this week, prompting the Canadian military to send a second aircraft with a repair crew to the Caribbean island. Defence Department spokeswoman Andrée-Anne Poulin says a maintenance issue on the Royal Canadian Air Force CC-144 Challenger was discovered Jan. 2, before Prime Minister Trudeau was due to travel back to Canada. The Canadian Armed Forces sent a second aircraft and maintenance team to Jamaica, which was able to fix the issue on Jan. 3 in time for the prime minister, who cannot take commercial flights for security reasons, to travel back on the original plane....

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