Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks to senior military leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico. (AP)

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth’s plane was forced to make an “unscheduled landing” in the UK on Wednesday, during a return flight headed for America, after suffering a cracked windshield, the Pentagon has revealed.

Hegseth was heading back to the US from Belgium after attending NATO’s Defence Minister’s meeting when his Boeing C-32 made the emergency stop, off the south west coast of Ireland.

The plane reported a general emergency after indicating 7700 code, and thereafter the aircraft was lowered to an altitude of 10,000 feet and later on landed safely at the Royal Air Force Mildenhall in the UK, Bloomberg reported quoting data from Flightaware.com.

Pentagon spokesperson Sean P

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