Man in his underpants danced on the wing of Angela Merkel's jet The man, a bodybuilder of Turkish descent named as Volkan T, 24, danced on a wing of the German chancellor's aircraft, sprayed fire extinguisher foam around its luxury cabin and randomly pushed cockpit buttons, deploying an emergency evacuation slide. According to a leaked police report, the man easily boarded the Airbus 319 on 25 July, clutching a bag full of marijuana and ecstasy pills, while it was parked at a closed military section of Cologne airport. The authorities were only alerted to the security breach, when he inadvertently triggered an alarm while playing with the cockpit buttons. Adding to the embarrassment, it then took police, dogs, private security guards and soldiers three hours to get the intruder off the plane, including attempts to persuade him to give up shouted over a megaphone. The Federal state aircraft was loaded with up to eight tons of fuel, enough to take it to Beijing and it was ready to fly if the intruder had known how. The man entered the secure airport area by telling a guard he had been invited to a wedding reception being held in a nearby quarters for air force officers. He then climbed a barbed wire fence, walked across the tarmac, clambered onto the plane's left wing and got in through an open emergency exit. The intruder is currently being held in a psychiatric institution and his partying cost an estimated £85,000 in damage. The jet needed new carpet, a new coat of paint on its wing and a new emergency slide. It was declared operational again this week after a successful test flight. "We have reviewed our guidelines in response to this and changes are being made," a spokesman for the German Air Force told Der Spiegel.