Aircraft carrying the Secretary of State Marco Rubio He was transferred back to Andrews United Base Thursday night due to mechanical problems.
Spokesman Tammy Bruce said Rubio was on his way from Washington, D.C. to Munich, Germany on Thursday night when the plane experienced mechanical problems.
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio boarded a plane at Andrews, a joint base at the Munich Security Conference in Maryland, USA on February 13, 2025. (Reuters/Evelyn Hawkstan/Chi)
The plane turned around and returned to the United Base, which it arrived before 10 p.m. ET.
An official said the mechanical problem was related to the cockpit windshield on the C-32, the remodeled Boeing 757, which occurred about 90 minutes after the flight took off from the joint base Andrews.
Bruce says Rubio intends to continue his Go to Germany Take a different plane from the Middle East.
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio prepares to send joint base Andrews to the Munich Security Conference in Maryland, USA, February 13, 2025. (Reuters/Evelyn Hawkstan/Chi)
Rubio is expected to go middle East For several days, after Germany attended the Munich Security Conference, it visited Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
His upcoming visit to the Middle East is a critical period in foreign policy as Israel and Hamas are implementing a three-phase ceasefire agreement 16 months after the Gaza war.
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It is unclear whether Thursday’s delays would cause Rubio to miss a Friday morning meeting with Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Elizabeth Pritchett, Bradford Betz and the Associated Press contributed to the report.
