Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his group had to travel by car from Paris to Brussels for a NATO meeting because their plane had a mechanical problem on Wednesday.
A spokesperson from the State Department informed The Hill that Secretary Blinken and the American delegation had to drive from Paris to Brussels for the NATO Foreign Ministers meeting due to a mechanical issue with the airplane.
The airplane, a modified older model of a Boeing 737, experienced a mechanical problem. Bloomberg reported. The State Department did not specify the plane's model, and both the department and Boeing were contacted for further comment by The Hill.
The distance from Paris to Brussels is about 190 miles.
Blinken was in France this week for a series of meetings with foreign leaders. On Tuesday, he met had meetings with French President Emmanuel Macron and UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay and toured visited the Nexter Headquarters in Versailles with French Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu.
Earlier this year, Blinken was in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in January when a mechanical issue grounded occurred with the plane scheduled to bring him back to Washington. Multiple media reports at the time stated the plane was a Boeing 737.
The U.S. Air Force had to obtain another aircraft from Brussels to transport the U.S leader home.
