{"id":302441,"date":"2025-10-16T19:54:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T09:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/pete-hegseth-usaf-boeing-757-diversion-cracked-windshield\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T19:54:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T09:54:06","slug":"us-defense-secretarys-plane-diverts-to-the-uk-due-to-cracked-windshield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=302441","title":{"rendered":"US Defense Secretary&#8217;s Plane Diverts To The UK Due To Cracked Windshield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A United States Air Force<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60363\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing\/\"  >Boeing<\/a><\/span> C-32A military transport aircraft carrying the American Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth back from a NATO meeting in Belgium was forced to divert to the UK yesterday. The plane, which is a modified version of the 757-200, ended up landing at a military base in Suffolk after a cracked windshield prompted it to turn around while flying to the west, just beyond Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The incident forced the jet to land at a military base in Suffolk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,398,1379,412,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-boeing-757","category-military","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302442,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302441\/revisions\/302442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}