Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s plane suffered a cracked windshield mid-flight Wednesday, forcing it to make an “unscheduled landing” in the United Kingdom, the Pentagon revealed.

Hegseth was returning to the US from Brussels after attending NATO’s Defense Minister’s meeting when his Boeing C-32 made the emergency pit stop and left him grounded overseas, according to Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell.

“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,” Parnell said in an X post Wednesday afternoon. 3

“The plane landed based on standard procedures and everyone onboard, including Secretary Hegseth, is safe.”

The aircraft lost a

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