A mechanical problem forced to return to the plane that transported the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to Germany to participate in the Munich Security Conference. Rubio intends to continue trip in another aircraft, according to sources from the State Department.
A United States Air Force plane that transported Secretary of State Frame Washington on Thursday night after presenting a mechanical problem.
“This afternoon, on Washington Route to Munich, the plane in which the Rubio Secretary experienced a mechanical problem flies,” Tammy Bruce, spokesman for the State Department, announced.
“The plane has turned around and is returning to the Andrews joint base,” he added. “The secretary intends to continue his trip to Germany and the Middle East in a different aircraft.”
The problem, which according to an official was related to the windshield of the C-32 cabin-a modified Boeing 757-emerged approximately 90 minutes after the flight took off the Andrews joint base, located outside Washington.
Although Rubio plans to resume his trip on a new plane, for the moment it was not clear if the delay would lose a meeting that he had scheduled on Friday morning with the American vice president JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Munich.