a hundred high school students from Île-de-France stuck for hours on a plane

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It's a trip they'll remember for a long time, but not for the right reasons. Wednesday November 27, 2024, 120 high school students from Île-de-France accompanied by their teachers, a delegation from the Shoah Memorial and members of the regional council, including Valérie Pécresse, boarded a plane at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport, retraced France Blue Paris.

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It is 6:40 a.m. and their arrival at Krakow is scheduled a few hours later. There, a bus awaits them to return Auschwitz and its concentration camps.

First pitfall: the takeoff is delayed of one hour because the weather there is too bad to allow a landing.

The machine eventually leaves the ground and the flight goes off without a hitch. But new problem: impossible to land due to the lack of visibility. “We stayed in the air for three hours, we were circling, we were circling! », Testifies on the radio microphone a student present on board.

The pilot and his passengers will then wait three hours in the plane before being redirected to Wroclawa town located further north in Poland and therefore further from Auschwitz. The visit was ultimately canceled due to lack of time.

The passengers touched down at Roissy around 14h30after more than 7 hours in the air. But it's only a postponement, Valérie Pécresse would have promised a new trip before the end of the school year.

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