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SouthBayDem

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Wed Oct 15, 2025, 07:05 PM Wednesday

Hegseth's plane diverted to UK due to cracked windshield on flight from Brussels to US

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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.

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

After Hegseth left Brussels, open source flight trackers spotted his C-32 lose altitude and begin broadcasting an emergency signal.

No members of the Pentagon press corps were traveling with Hegseth, as was regular practice under previous defense secretaries. Instead, Pentagon reporters were emptying their desks and cleaning out their workspaces after rejecting new rules for journalists based in the Pentagon.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-plane-cracked-windshield-f7a72ae5b173ac6c9d24af762c08e714

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Hegseth's plane diverted to UK due to cracked windshield on flight from Brussels to US (Original Post) SouthBayDem Wednesday OP
The windshield inspector was fired two weeks ago. twodogsbarking Wednesday #1
Keep him out of the cockpit - I think "he's so ugly he could crack a mirror" applies.... walkingman Wednesday #2
too bad that.... oh, nevermind lamp_shade Wednesday #3
There are lots of innocents on board Polybius Wednesday #4
Has he found a way to blame it on blacks and women yet? DEI Norrrm Wednesday #5
Give him time vapor2 Wednesday #6
So close. BidenRocks Wednesday #7
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