{"id":215792,"date":"2025-10-15T22:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T22:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/215792\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T22:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T22:08:12","slug":"cracked-windscreen-forces-us-defence-secretarys-plane-to-land-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/215792\/","title":{"rendered":"Cracked windscreen forces US defence secretary&#8217;s plane to land in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth&#8217;s plane made an unscheduled landing in the UK, during a return flight headed for the US, the Pentagon said on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The plane carrying Hegseth on his way back from Nato&#8217;s Defence Minister meeting in Belgium had a &#8220;crack in the aircraft windshield&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">&#8220;The plane landed based on standard procedures and everyone onboard, including Secretary Hegseth, is safe,&#8221; the government said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Hegseth later wrote after landing: &#8220;All good. Thank God. Continue mission!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">BBC Verify tracked the plane, and found that it began losing altitude off the south-west coast of Ireland. It then headed back east, having dropped to an altitude of 10,000 feet, accoring to FlightRadar24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">At this time, the plane started broadcasting a &#8220;7700 squawk code&#8221; on its transponder. These are relayed to signify a general emergency onboard, ranging from engine failure to depressurisation to a medical emergency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">In February a government plane carrying Secretary of State Marco Rubio had to turn back due to a crack in the window of the cockpit, as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Defence ministers had gathered in Belgium on Wednesday to discuss security in Ukraine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth&#8217;s plane made an unscheduled landing in the UK, during a return flight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-215792","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\/215792","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=215792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}