Secretary of Battle Pete Hegseth's aircraft suffered a cracked windshield mid-flight Wednesday, forcing it to make an “unscheduled touchdown” in the UK, the Pentagon revealed.
Hegseth was returning to the US from Brussels after attending NATO's Protection Minister's assembly when his Boeing C-32 made the emergency pit cease and left him grounded abroad, in response to Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell.
“On the way in which again to the USA from NATO's Protection Ministers assembly, Secretary of Battle Hegseth's aircraft made an unscheduled touchdown in the UK as a consequence of a crack within the plane windshield,” Parnell said in an X post Wednesday afternoon.
“The aircraft landed based mostly on customary procedures and everybody onboard, together with Secretary Hegseth, is protected.”
The plane misplaced altitude off the coast of Eire and issued an emergency sign earlier than dropping 10,000 ft and turning east towards the UK, in response to flight knowledge, the BBC reported.
It's unclear what brought about the aircraft's windshield to crack.
“All good. Thank God,” Hegseth later posted on X.
“Proceed mission!”
In February, the Air Drive's Boeing C-32 aircraft transporting Secretary of State Marco Rubio to Germany was pressured to return to Washington DC after it skilled a problem with the cockpit windshield.
