While returning from Brussels to the US, the Pentagon chief’s plane was diverted to Britain due to a crack in the windshield.

Secretary of Defense pete hegsethThe plane had to make an unscheduled landing in the United Kingdom after the plane’s windshield was broken while returning from a NATO meeting in the United States, and everyone on board is safe. pentagon Said.

The plane landed “based on standard procedures,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a post on Twitter.

After Hegseth left brusselsOpen source flight trackers noticed his plane losing altitude and starting to broadcast an emergency signal.

In February, an Air Force plane carried Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the senator who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. gym riskwas forced to return in the same manner Washington Following a problem with the cockpit windshield. The incident occurred about 90 minutes after takeoff from Joint Base Andrews outside Washington.