The plane carrying Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made an unscheduled stop in the UK on Wednesday due to a cracked windshield. Hegseth was traveling back to the U.S. after a meeting in Belgium with NATO defense officials.

“On the way back to the United States from NATO’s Defense Ministers meeting, Secretary of War [sic] 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,” Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell wrote on X .

The Boeing C-32 made an emergency landing at Royal Air Force Mildenhall after the crack was found over southern Ireland, according to Bloomberg . The plane quickly descended to 10,000 feet when the crack was

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