Jet Transporting Pete Hegseth Required to Land in UK Because of Fracture in Windshield

A plane ferrying the US defense secretary was forced to make an emergency landing in the UK on Wednesday after a crack was found in the aircraft's cockpit window, as stated by an announcement which confirmed that the secretary was unharmed.

"The aircraft landed based on established safety measures and everyone onboard, including Pete Hegseth, is secure," an official representative commented in a public statement.

He was traveling back from a brief trip to the Belgian capital at the time.

This event isn't the first time that a United States armed forces jet carrying a top government figure has experienced equipment failures.

In a previous incident this year, a US Air Force plane carrying Marco Rubio to the city in Germany was forced to return to Washington DC after experiencing a mechanical problem.