US secretary of state late at NATO meeting after its Boeing went tech in Paris today
U.S. Secretary of State’s aircraft had a mechanical issue in Paris on Wednesday.
U.S.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s Boeing had a mechanical issue in
Paris on Wednesday. He was due to to the NATO meeting in Belgium.
The
incident forced the delegation to drive from Paris to Brussels for a
meeting of NATO alliance foreign ministers, a State Department
spokesperson said.
On a previous trip to Europe in January,
Blinken was briefly stranded in the Swiss resort town of Davos due to an
issue with his plane due to oxygen leak back in January made flying too
risky.
The US State Department refrained from mentioning the make of plane. But
according to sources, it affected aircraft is a modified Boeing 737.
