🔗 Share this article Aircraft Carrying Pete Hegseth Required to Touch Down in UK Due to Crack in Windshield A jet transporting Pete Hegseth was compelled to make an unplanned landing in the UK on Wednesday due to a fissure was discovered in the jet's front window, as stated by an announcement which stated that all passengers were secure. "The jet landed in accordance with standard procedures and all passengers, among them Secretary Hegseth, is safe," an official representative said in a social media post. The secretary was coming back from a brief trip to the Belgian capital at the time. This incident isn't the first time that a American defense plane transporting a top government figure has experienced technical problems. Months ago, a American military jet ferrying the US Secretary of State to Munich was forced to turn back to the US capital after experiencing a mechanical fault.