US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who attended the Davos forum, was forced to delay his departure from Switzerland on Wednesday due to a technical problem with his plane.
The head of American diplomacy, who spent a day and a half in the famous ski resort to participate in the World Economic Forum, was unable to leave Zurich at the scheduled time due to what an American official called of “critical failure” of his device due to an oxygen leak.
Another plane was sent to pick him up while members of his delegation returned to Washington on a scheduled flight.
Plane problems are not uncommon for the Secretary of State, who depends on an aging fleet of official aircraft, the renewal of which Congress is reluctant to finance.
Mr. Blinken has made four trips to the Middle East, often visiting several countries a day, since Hamas’s bloody October 7 attack on Israel, which responded with a large-scale military campaign in the Gaza Strip.
