Vance’s plane makes emergency landing in Milwaukee

A charter plane carrying Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) was forced to make an emergency landing at a Wisconsin airport on Aug. 16 due to a door seal defect, a Vance campaign spokesman said.

The pilot of the Boeing 737-86J jet, known as “Trump Force Two,” reported a mechanical problem and made an emergency landing in Milwaukee, Vance spokeswoman Taylor Van Kirk said.

“The pilot warned that there was a door seal malfunction,” Van Kirk told The Epoch Times in an emailed statement. “After the emergency was declared, Trump Force Two returned to Milwaukee. Once the problem was resolved, the aircraft returned to its originally planned flight path back to Cincinnati.”

Photojournalist Asher Heimermann, who witnessed the landing, wrote in a series of posts on X that the Milwaukee County Fire Department was on the scene and inspected the plane before it resumed its flight to its intended destination.

According to the scanners, there were 43 people on board.

The incident came exactly a week after Trump’s Boeing 757, nicknamed “Trump Force One,” was diverted to Billings-Logan International Airport during the former president’s trip to a rally in Bozeman, Montana, for unspecified technical reasons.

An airport official confirmed to The Epoch Times that a mechanical problem forced the diversion on Aug. 9 and that the plane landed “without incident.”

Trump traveled to Montana on Aug. 9 for a rally in Bozeman, where he tried to drum up support for Republican candidate Tim Sheehy, who is seeking to unseat longtime Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.).

Vance was in Wisconsin on August 16 to give a speech at the Milwaukee Police Association headquarters, focusing on crime and law enforcement.

Vance stressed the need for supportive law enforcement policies and criticized current leadership policies, particularly on border security. However, he advocated for stronger border control measures.

“The border policies that we have on the southern border are making our communities less safe, even as far north as Wisconsin,” Vance said. “It means Mexican drug cartels are operating in our communities. It means people are dying from fentanyl.”

Fentanyl deaths regularly account for about 70 percent of all drug overdose deaths in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that nearly 75,000 Americans will die from overdoses involving synthetic opioids, primarily fentanyl, in 2023.

From The Epoch Times