Posted on 04/08/2024 3:49:12 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is the latest person dealing with problems with a Boeing jet.
Blinken and other State Department officials who are in Europe for talks about the wars in Ukraine and Gaza were forced to ride by car between Paris and Brussels Wednesday because the Air Force C-40 jet, a modified version of the Boeing 737 used commercial airlines, developed unspecified problems, according to the press pool traveling with him. Blinken travels on aircraft from the Air Force fleet. The top US diplomat arrived without incident to the Belgian capital for a meeting of the NATO foreign ministers.
This is the second time this year that Blinken has had an issue with a Boeing plane while traveling. In January, when Blinken was about to return from Switzerland, the same model of plane suffered what the traveling press was told was a critical failure related to an oxygen leak, and he was forced to fly home in a smaller jet.
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Hope he had too use an EV ,LOL
I’d rather see him fly Boeing everywhere
“forced to fly home in a smaller jet.”
poor, poor baby. Sniff. The horrors.
I didn’t follow Boeing’s 1997 takeover of McDonnell Douglas too closely. One subsequent event was Boeing moving its headquarters to Chicago in 2001. Boeing was never the same after the takeover, per several observers.
Why do I get the strange feeling that this is all planned so that Boeing will be taken over by the government after all their planes are grounded due to extensive mechanical problems?
There goes another sixth of the economy after healthcare.
Blinken almost got boinged?
Our airports are secure. So if he’s flying to Western Europe, why can’t he fly commercial?
I’m getting suspicious that some Airdales aren’t impressed with winkinBlinken? Just can’t get motivated to keep his plane running?
Who are the mechanics?
This story is one from April 3rd…
Clinton-era Commerce Secretary Ron Brown could not be reached for comment
I could care less if this communist scumbag had to walk and swim home......oh, wait....swim??? Not a chance....LOL
I would have opted for the high speed train.
I’d like to see that plane full of bureaucrats go in hot nose first
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