The Air France plane, with German soldiers and ammunition on board, took off from Tegel airport in Berlin on May 28. The loss of a plastic crate containing 880 pieces of ammunition was discovered after the plane landed in the capital of Mali, Bamako.
"When the soldiers arrived at Bamako, Air France was unable to hand over the ammunition in accordance with the instructions it received from Bundeswehr," a representative of the Bundeswehr told Die Welt newspaper.
German military filed a case on missing ammunition with the Berlin police on June 6, and an investigation and search for the lost ammunition is under way.
Germany is taking part in the UN mission in Mali (MINUSMA) and has 200 soldiers in the country as part of a European mission to train Malian troops.
