US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who attended the Davos Forum, had to postpone his departure from Switzerland on Wednesday due to a technical problem with his plane.
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The American diplomatic chief, who spent a day and a half in the famous ski resort to attend the World Economic Forum, was unable to leave Zurich at the scheduled time because his equipment had “critically failed” due to an oxygen leak, according to an American official.
Another plane was sent to pick him up while members of his delegation returned to Washington on a commercial flight.
Aircraft problems are not uncommon for the secretary of state, who relies on an aging fleet of official planes that Congress is reluctant to fund replacing.
Mr Blinken has made four trips to the Middle East since Hamas's bloody attack on Israel on October 7, which he responded with a large-scale military campaign in Gaza, often visiting several countries a day.