{"id":153716,"date":"2025-09-19T00:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T00:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/153716\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T00:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T00:15:09","slug":"trump-diverted-and-forced-to-swap-helicopters-on-way-to-stansted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/153716\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump diverted and forced to swap helicopters on way to Stansted"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"StoryStory Picture Agency<\/p>\n

After stopping at Luton Airport the US president swapped into a different helicopter and continued to Stansted<\/p>\n

The helicopter carrying US President Donald Trump was forced to divert to Luton Airport as he finished his state visit to the UK.<\/p>\n

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said “due to a minor hydraulic issue”, the aircraft landed at a “local airfield” before later reaching Stansted around 20 minutes behind schedule.<\/p>\n

She said the decision was taken “out of an abundance of caution” adding that the president and first lady “safely boarded the support helicopter”.<\/p>\n

Emergency services were spotted on the tarmac at Luton following the landing.<\/p>\n

Separate images show both of Trump’s helicopters, known as Marine One and Marine Two, just off Luton’s runway.<\/p>\n

Marine One and Marine Two are specially adapted aircraft known as “white tops” because of their livery.<\/p>\n

\"StoryStory Picture Agency<\/p>\n

Emergency services are seen at Luton Airport following the landing<\/p>\n

They are fitted with missile defence and radar jamming systems as well as electronics designed to withstand the electromagnetic pulse of a nuclear blast.<\/p>\n

As a security measure, Marine One often flies in a group of identical helicopters acting as decoys.<\/p>\n

It is also usually accompanied by two or three Osprey MV-22s – tilt-rotor aircraft referred to as “green tops” that combine the vertical landing ability of a helicopter with the flying speed and efficiency of an aeroplane.<\/p>\n

The Ospreys carry support staff, special forces and secret service agents, who are tasked with dealing with any mid-flight emergency.<\/p>\n

\"PAPA Media<\/p>\n

Marine One landed at Chequers in Buckinghamshire as part of Donald Trump’s second state visit<\/p>\n

Trump had been using the Marine One helicopter to travel between different locations on his unprecedented second state visit to the UK.<\/p>\n

He arrived at Stansted late on Tuesday night and was flown to Winfield House in central London – the official residence of the US ambassador to the UK.<\/p>\n

The following day, President Trump and his wife flew to Windsor Castle where they met the King and Queen.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Trump was taken on Marine One from Windsor to Chequers for diplomatic talks with UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.<\/p>\n

During a joint news conference at Chequers, the two leaders addressed a range of issues, including Ukraine, Gaza and illegal migration – a subject which Trump suggested Britain could solve by calling in the military. <\/a><\/p>\n

Trump said he had “a disagreement with the prime minister” on the subject of Palestinian statehood.<\/p>\n

Starmer plans to recognise Palestinian statehood ahead of next week’s United Nations general assembly in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Story Picture Agency After stopping at Luton Airport the US president swapped into a different helicopter and continued…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-153716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}