Luftwaffe A340 ops terminated immediately

[Key]

As reported here by Herby and can be found online with several sources meanwhile.

Erik

[Key]

Addition: according to @Team_Luftwaffe, 16+01 will continue on its way to Australia tonight.

[Richard from Rotterdam]

16+02 seems to be on a transatlantic heading at the moment, as GAF917…

Heading towards the desert maybe?

[Starman]

Re 16+01 (or 1601 for pedants); they must've given it some welly as it passed W/b OTT TLV @ 14.00 on the 18th heading back to erm, Germany

[HUD]

16+02 seems to be on a transatlantic heading at the moment, as GAF917…

Heading towards the desert maybe?

It returned later in the afternoon to Cologne and is parked at the Mil ramp.

[hvaneupen]

16+01 went to Hamburg this morning, but is still 'visible' at ADS-B.

[Marcel V]

16+02 just left Köln/Bonn and is heading west as GAF896 if ADS-B serves me right.
Would this be the final flight then?
I do recall seeing another GAF A340 active on ADS-B earlier this week, but can't remember if it was 16+01 or 16+02. I am positive that is was an A340 though.

[michel N]

According to a topic on Flugzeugforum, 16+02 is heading for a new owner in the USA.

[VH3D]

Came via IAD for a fuel stop. Got it departing 1 hour later leaving for Roswell.

https://flic.kr/p/2p5DWfu

[Key]

Beautiful!

[HUD]

16+01 currently from Köln to Leipzig and Stuttgart for some approaches.

[michel N]

Heard somewhere it was sold to an African government