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"The Pope Has Spent Most of the Journey with Us in the Cockpit": an Officer of the Airline Pilot Tells "This Unique Moment" with Leo XIV

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The Pope's plane was escorted by Rafale of the Air Force and Space. The pilot officer of the airline Eryk Margueritte tells LCI "the unique moment" that he has just lived. (Company topics).

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The Pope's plane was escorted by Rafale of the Air Force and Space. The pilot officer of the airline Eryk Margueritte tells LCI "the unique moment" that he has just lived. (Company topics).

Pope Leo XIV spent half an hour in the cockpit of the plane that flew him from Lourdes to Metz on Monday morning. "We had informal conversations with him. He's passionate about aviation, cars, and mechanics in general," said Éric Marguerite, the co-pilot, after landing at Metz-Nancy-Lorraine Airport. The flight, piloted by Captain Clémence Coussonneau, was escorted by two French Air Force jets. The article "La Croix": The Pope Flew from Lourdes …

Pope Leo XIV spent about 30 minutes in the cabin of the Airbus A320 which took him from Lourdes to Metz, France, escorted by a Rafale fighter.

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This morning, Pope Leo XIV, who is a passionate aviation fan, spent half an hour in the cockpit of the Air France plane he was traveling on to ...

Pope Leo XIV spent 30 minutes in the cabin of Air France's Airbus A321 aircraft which moved him to Metz, from where he blessed the two Rafale fighter pilots who escorted him

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Pope Leo XIV spent about half an hour in the command cabin of the plane that took him from Lourdes to ...

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TF1 INFO broke the news on Monday, September 28, 2026.
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