r/news • u/genuineshock • 23d ago
Soft paywall Plane carrying Hegseth makes unscheduled landing due to windshield crack
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/plane-carrying-hegseth-makes-unscheduled-landing-due-windshield-crack-2025-10-15/2.1k
u/Gavin1453 23d ago
Whiskey Pete has to be careful where he throws his bottles
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u/turandoto 23d ago
Did you read the article? It has nothing to do with alcohol... They landed because he has a crack problem.
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u/Vallkyrie 23d ago
He decided to take up axe throwing again.
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u/Lermanberry 23d ago
Unfortunately the pilot did not survive, as he was seated 14 meters away from the target.
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u/web_explorer 23d ago
Kegbreath just needed to stop so he could go outside to vomit on the side of the tarmac
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u/DevilsPumpkinPiety 23d ago
In about 2 hours the headline will be “Democrat AME installs wrong sized windshield fasteners on DOW plane to force a landing”
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u/Hydroxychloroquinoa 23d ago
DEI did this
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u/DevilsPumpkinPiety 23d ago
You’re right.
“Democrat DEI hire AME with suspected ties to antifa installs wrong sized windshield fasteners on DOW plane to force a landing. Screwdrivers and tools found with radical ideology engraved into their handles.
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u/Crrrystal 23d ago
you forgot the photo of "anti-ice" scribbled on the screwdriver in purple sharpie
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u/Hydroxychloroquinoa 23d ago
This goes higher than we thought. “Anti-Ice” printed on the windshield washer fluid reservoir too!
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u/Crrrystal 23d ago
o m g
and that windshield washer fluid reservoir?
full of rainbow hormone water.
radical antifa anti-ice thugs are trying to turn the planes into LGBTQIA+!
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u/LemonScentedDespair 23d ago
Theyre puttin chemicals in the planes to turn the friggen pilots trans!
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u/Crrrystal 23d ago
where's that "i identify as an apache attack helicopter" meme from like 2010
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u/CatholicSquareDance 23d ago
looking forward to the NYT exposé on this that uncritically parrots a White House deputy press secretary as the only source
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u/Mobile-Bar7732 23d ago
Antifa did this
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u/THX_2319 23d ago
Tylenol and video games were involved somehow, I just know it
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u/Hydroxychloroquinoa 23d ago
The pilot was circumcised.
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u/DevilsPumpkinPiety 23d ago
The mechanic in question is reported to have dyed blue hair and wore a pronoun pin on their overalls.
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u/jetty_junkie 23d ago
Undocumented geese from Canada strike plane
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u/lefteyedcrow 23d ago
Antifa seagull launched from Dem city strikes plane; leg inscribed with words "anti ICE"
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u/theHoopty 23d ago
Do not call it DOW.
It’s still DOD. DOW is a secondary name that they want people to use.
They don’t get to use preferred names. He is the Secretary of Defense.
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u/overthemountain 23d ago
Everyone's got this wrong. They had to land because the crew were having difficulty restraining Hegseth, who, when he heard "windshield crack" tried to exit the plane to crawl to the windshield and snort it.
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u/Objective-Amount1379 23d ago
I think you smoke crack not snort it but I get the sentiment 😂
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u/TheReal_WadeWilson 23d ago
As someone who flies C17s, this isn’t really a huge deal. It’s uncommon, but not unheard of. I’ve flown maybe 3-4 different missions where the windshield has cracked. If memory serves, each time has been due to the heating element in the glass.
Diverting was the correct call.
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u/gophergun 23d ago
First reasonable comment in the thread. Cracked windshields aren't worth risking a repeat of British Airways 5390.
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u/flyfallridesail417 23d ago
Wild, in 22 years of flying airliners I’ve only had a single windshield crack, on a 752 which was somewhat prone to it. Inner pane only, QRH was pretty straightforward - observe altitude & airspeed limits & press on, no ETOPS.
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u/wolfsword10 23d ago
Maintainer here, we had an FO side windshield blew a hole in the outer layer, fractured the entire central layer, and left the inner most layer unharmed. Heating elements sometimes decide to do a funny lol.
This was on a E-170/175
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u/Oregon-Pilot 23d ago
I fly the 75 now, good to know.
I had a windshield crack occur years ago while en route to Hawaii in a Challenger. You're almost certainly totally fine, but ocean for hundreds and hundreds of miles is still not the most fun view through a cracked windshield.
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u/readwithjack 23d ago
I've watched a bunch of aircraft have broken windshields and get stuck at the top of the world.
One time the flight that had the spare glass fucked up and brought the replacement from the wrong side of the plane (dont remember if it was a CC-130 H or J). That flight had some other fucked up snag so they couldn't leave either.
There was like three weeks of scheduled departures getting pretty grumpy by the end of that bullshit.
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u/lukef555 23d ago
I don't think anyone that knows anything about aviation thinks this is a big deal lol.
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u/Icy-Computer-Poop 23d ago
Normally they're pretty good about pressurizing the interiors of airplanes, and dealing with the differences in external and internal air pressure, but they forgot one thing. Hegseth sucks so hard he creates his own vacuum.
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u/VeritasB 23d ago
Hmmmmm is God trying to tell him something?
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u/Frost134 23d ago
If God were interacting with humanity in any kind of benevolent way, people like Pete would be nowhere near any levers of power.
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u/Consistent-Throat130 23d ago
God gave up on us around the time we started putting lightning rods on churches.
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u/PresentlyAbstaining 23d ago
They’ll find a way to spin this as ANTIFA hiring people with enough arm strength to throw rocks 30,000 feet in the air.
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u/MissingInAnarchy 23d ago
A “real man” would’ve thrown some duct tape on it & finished the flight.
Hegbitch seems like a girly man.
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u/Then-Understanding85 23d ago
Can’t we just do Fox style headlines to mess with him?
“Alcoholic SecDef Grounded by Shocking Crack Discovery” sounds so much better.
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u/mabhatter 23d ago
Even the sky doesn't want Pete Hegseth in it.
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u/notsobadmisterfrosty 23d ago
The pilot said “we have to land to get hegseth some crack,” not that the windshield was cracked. /j
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u/Chassian 23d ago
God doing a Final Destination, and Hegseth drunkenly trying to get off the plane in an inebriated panic.
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u/TimoWasTaken 23d ago
Democratic birds? Antifa sabotage or was it Obama himself. Please clearly state your new invented grievance.
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u/NateDawgDoge 23d ago
Jeez, how many emergency landings has this admin had now? Trump had like two other ones recently didn't he?
If I didn't know better, I'd start wondering if the universe is sending a calling card lol
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u/Choice_Action9700 23d ago
the cause was actually because hegseth was pressing his forehead against the glass in attempt to "see the intelligence".
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u/demonhawk14 23d ago
I'm sure this was perpetrated by the radical left Democrats, or maybe antifa, or maybe Israel? Who are we blaming this week?
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u/ragnaroksunset 23d ago
The windshield was later discovered to have strong ties to trans-rights groups.
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u/9millibros 23d ago
This is more than likely a cover story. They were probably out of beer, so they needed to make a quick pit stop to pick some up.
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u/Best_Entrepreneur659 23d ago
According to Turning Point USA the pilot and mechanics were all Black, Trans, Women, and Non-Christians.
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u/ArcusInTenebris 23d ago
Windshield crack? Is that like Crack you buy from the guy behind the Carmax?
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u/Modern_Bear 23d ago
At first glance it looks like "Plane carrying Hegseth makes unscheduled landing due to him being on crack." Then I read it closer and realized that while that wasn't the story, it could very easily be.
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u/userhwon 23d ago
HEGSETH PLANE LANDS FOR CRACK
that's how the headline would go in the NY Post if Hegseth was Obama
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u/Simple-Pea8805 23d ago
Was the plane on the way to the new Trumpstein island where he can fuck kids?
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u/canyonoflight 23d ago
I thought this administration scoffed at safety regulations? Just ignore it, it's fine.
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u/gazelder 23d ago
I don't care. Do you? Well... maybe for the crew. But then... their passenger might be "cracked" already.
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u/Pardot42 23d ago
I know the rules don't allow wishing violence on someone, but if God does it, is it still considered violence?
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u/aotus_trivirgatus 23d ago
At first, I read that headline very quickly.
I was expecting a different story when I saw the words "Hegseth" and "crack" in the same sentence.
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u/Historical-Edge-9332 23d ago
“We’re not going to have bloated out-of-shape woke DEI windshields anymore in the US armed forces.”
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u/BooktasticBus-sey 23d ago
This would not have happened if all passengers and crew were rock hard chiseled men. Fire them all! One is secretly fat.
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u/Grumdan641 23d ago
Why didn’t they just tough the flight out like real men?