U.S. homeland security secretary’s plane lands safely after right-engine failure

A plane carrying U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin lost the use of its right engine during a flight to Washington, then landed safely on a single engine at Reagan Washington National Airport.

The Coast Guard-operated C-37A was flying from Atlanta to the Washington area when the failure occurred on Sept. 2, according to air-traffic-control recordings cited by Reuters. The pilot declared an emergency before bringing the aircraft down at Reagan National.

Fourteen people were aboard, and the plane landed at 1:35 p.m. Eastern time. Mullin praised the Coast Guard pilots afterward, saying they handled the emergency without visible panic.

“U.S. Coast Guard pilots made that single-engine landing look like a routine landing. There was not a moment of panic, only complete professionalism,” Mullin wrote on X. The Federal Aviation Administration declined to comment and referred questions to the Coast Guard, which had not responded at the time of the report.

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U.S. Coast Guard pilots made that single-engine landing look like a routine landing. There was not a moment of panic, only complete professionalism.