This evening from Washington to Munich flew a plane on which the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mark Rutte, was traveling, experiencing a technical malfunction," said the representative of the Department of State, Tami Bruce. The military aircraft, aboard which were Secretary Mark Rutte and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Jim Risch, who was heading to Germany for the Munich Security Conference, was forced to return to Washington late Thursday evening due to technical malfunction.
The problem, as one of the officials stated, occurred when the aircraft was in a descent at cruising altitude on a bubble glass airplane C-32, converted Boeing 757, which occurred about 90 minutes after takeoff from Andrews Air Force Base outside of Washington. Rutte plans to continue his trip on a new plane, but it was unclear whether the delay would allow him to meet with Vice President Jay D. Wens and President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky in Munich on Friday morning.
"The Secretary intends to continue his journey to Germany and to the Middle East on another aircraft. The plane will circle back and return to Andrews Air Force Base," she said.
This evening from Washington to Munich flew a plane on which the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mark Rutte, was traveling, experiencing a technical malfunction," said the representative of the Department of State, Tami Bruce. The military aircraft, aboard which were Secretary Mark Rutte and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Jim Risch, who was heading to Germany for the Munich Security Conference, was forced to return to Washington late Thursday evening due to technical malfunction...
The problem, as one of the officials stated, occurred when the aircraft was in a descent at cruising altitude on a bubble glass airplane C-32, converted Boeing 757, which occurred about 90 minutes after takeoff from Andrews Air Force Base outside of Washington. Rutte plans to continue his trip on a new plane, but it was unclear whether the delay would allow him to meet with Vice President Jay D. Wens and President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky in Munich on Friday morning...
