U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s aircraft, a Boeing C-32A, made an unscheduled landing in the United Kingdom on Wednesday after a crack was discovered in the windshield while returning from NATO’s Defense Ministers meeting in Brussels. Flight data indicated the aircraft made a descent to 10,000 feet and turned back towards RAF Mildenhall while squawking 7700.

“On the way back to the United States from NATO’s Defense Ministers meeting, Secretary of War Hegseth’s plane made an unscheduled landing in the United Kingdom due to a crack in the aircraft windshield,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a post on X. “The plane landed based on standard procedures and everyone onboard, including Secretary Hegseth, is safe.”

In a separate post on X, Hegseth wrote, “All good. Thank God. Cont

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