{"id":227260,"date":"2025-10-15T19:48:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T19:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/227260\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T19:48:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T19:48:14","slug":"pentagon-chiefs-plane-diverted-to-uk-due-to-cracked-windshield-on-flight-from-brussels-back-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/227260\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon chief’s plane diverted to UK due to cracked windshield on flight from Brussels back to US"},"content":{"rendered":"

United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth addresses a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025 (AP Photo\/Omar Havana) (Omar Havana, Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON \u2013 Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s plane made an unscheduled landing in the United Kingdom because a windshield cracked on a flight back to the U.S. from a NATO meeting and all aboard are safe, the Pentagon said.<\/p>\n

The plane landed \u201cbased on standard procedures,\u201d Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a post on X.<\/p>\n

After Hegseth left Brussels, open source flight trackers spotted his aircraft lose altitude and begin broadcasting an emergency signal.<\/p>\n

In February, an Air Force plane carrying Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, Sen. Jim Risch, was similarly forced to return to Washington<\/a> after an issue with the cockpit windshield. The incident occurred about 90 minutes after the flight took off from Joint Base Andrews outside of Washington.<\/p>\n

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