Pope Leo XIV’s Iberia Charter Engine Fails on the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Tarmac; King Felipe VI Lends the First American Pope His Royal Falcon Jet for the Retur... (opens in new tab)

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff, ended his seven-day apostolic visit to Spain on Friday with a three-hour-and-twenty-minute departure delay at Santa Cruz de Tenerife airport after his Iberia Airbus A330-200 charter's left Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engine failed to start after the papal delegation boarded. King Felipe VI, who had completed his own Tenerife schedule earlier in the day, drove to the tarmac and personally escorted Leo XIV to the royal Spanish Air Force Dassault Falcon 7X to ...