Belatedly departed from Tenerife bound for Rome o Pope Leo 14th, after a technical failure of his aircraft.
Her king was also at the International Airport Spain Felipe who immediately reacted by giving him his private Falcon so that the Roman Catholic Church’s predecessor could depart safely.
The technical problem occurred shortly after the Spanish monarch bid him farewell and while the Iberia plane had been on the runway for almost half an hour. However, the pilot detected that the system was not working properly and as a result the Pontiff landed smiling.
People at the scene told Spanish media that to save time, King Felipe offered him the Falcon aircraft so he could leave safely.
The Pontiff said he was “moved by the love he received” at the end of his apostolic visit to Spain.
In the afternoon he held mass in Tenerife, before about 35,000 people in the port.
Source: iefimerida.gr
