Plane carrying Trump has engine failure over Gulf of Mexico
The plane carrying Donald Trump had an engine failure over the Gulf of Mexico late on March 5, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing in New Orleans shortly after takeoff. TheWashington Post.
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The plane with Trump was forced to immediately return to the airport and make an unscheduled landing in Louisiana around 23:00 pm. The airliner was trying to fly Trump home to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida from the Four Seasons hotel in New Orleans, where he was negotiating with some of the GOP's top funders at a private event.
The plane, according to tracking data from the ADS-B Exchange, flew approximately 120 km after takeoff from New Orleans Lakefront Airport, reaching an altitude of about 8000 m before turning around. his advisers. According to eyewitnesses, one of the aircraft's engines failed.
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According to tracking data, the plane began its flight in Texas, flew to Palm Beach on March 5 in the afternoon, and then headed for New Orleans. A map of the evening's flight shows that the aircraft was above water when it turned around and flew to New Orleans bound for Louis Armstrong International Airport.
As the plane was coming in to land, the air traffic controller told the pilot, "Cars will follow you down the runway."
"I appreciate it," the pilot said, according to recordings archived by LiveATC.net.
The plane did not belong to Trump. His tail number was associated with a Utah company that operates more than 1400 aircraft. The identity of the owner of the board could not be immediately established.
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Trump's advisers have been working to find another plane that was flown to the New Orleans airport to meet him. In the end, Trump returned to Palm Beach on the plane of Craig Esty, a sponsor of the Republican Party and the founder of Nevada Restaurant Services.
Trump returned home to Palm Beach only early in the morning.
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