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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s plane suffered a cracked windshield mid-flight Wednesday, forcing it to make an “unscheduled landing” in the United Kingdom, the Pentagon revealed.
Hegseth was returning to the US from Brussels after attending NATO’s Defense Minister’s meeting when his Boeing C-32 made the emergency pit stop and left him grounded overseas, according to Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell.
“On the way back to the United States from NATO’s Defense Ministers meeting, Secretary of War Hegseth’s plane made an unscheduled landing in the United Kingdom due to a crack in the aircraft windshield,” Parnell said in an X post Wednesday afternoon.
“The plane landed based on standard procedures and everyone onboard, including Secretary Hegseth, is safe.”
The aircraft lost altitude off the coast of Ireland and issued an emergency signal before dropping 10,000 feet and turning east toward the UK, according to flight data, the BBC reported.
It’s unclear what caused the plane’s windshield to crack.
“All good. Thank God,” Hegseth later posted on X.
“Continue mission!”
In February, the Air Force’s Boeing C-32 plane transporting Secretary of State Marco Rubio to Germany was forced to return to Washington DC after it experienced an issue with the cockpit windshield.
