Executive jet forced to make emergency landing at Ruzyně

A plane carrying the chairman of the Czech Senate was forced to make an emergency landing in Prague on Thursday due to a technical problem. The executive jet was carrying a delegation of top officials including Deputy Defence Minister Martin Barták, as well as senate chairman Přemysl Sobotka, to Paris for talks with French parliamentarians. All the officials were unharmed in the incident, and were due to fly to the French capital later in the day for the unveiling of an exhibition on the Czech Republic between the wars. The plane had taken off from Prague's smaller Kbely airport, before diverting and being forced to land at the international Prague-Ruzyně airport. The nature of the fault has not been disclosed.