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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Isabel Keane and Andrew Feinberg

Pete Hegseth’s plane forced to make emergency landing in the UK after crack in the windshield

An airplane carrying Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was forced to make an emergency landing in the UK Wednesday due to a crack in its windshield, officials said.

Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell wrote on social media that on the way back to the U.S. after NATO’s Defense Minister meeting in Belgium, the plane made an “unscheduled landing in the United Kingdom” because of a crack in the aircraft’s windshield.

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