US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth was forced to land in the UK after the US Air Force plane he was on declared a mid-air emergency
A US Air Force plane carrying US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth was forced to divert to the UK after a mid-air emergency.
Around 30 minutes into its flight from Brussels to Washington, the Boeing C-32A experienced a “depressurisation issue”, forcing the aircraft to descend to 10,000 feet, according to aviation news network Airlive. Hegseth had been in the Belgian capital for talks at NATO headquarters.
His assistant, Sean Parnell, confirmed on X: “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. The plane landed based on standard procedures and everyone onboard, including Secretary Hegseth, is safe.”
The aircraft was diverted to RAF Mildenhall, a US Air Force base in the UK, Airlive reports.
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