‘No panic’: Plane carrying DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin loses engine, makes emergency landing
'We have 14 souls on board and two and a half hours of fuel'

“We just lost our right engine. We’d like to declare an emergency and [request] immediate landing at DCA,” the pilot radioed to aircraft control.
'We have 14 souls on board and two and a half hours of fuel'
The pilot told air traffic controllers in the Washington area that the airplane had 14 people on board. Mullin said the single-engine landing went smoothly.
Engine failure on a U.S. Coast Guard plane carrying Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin prompted an emergency landing in Virginia.
No injuries were reported after the plane landed at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
"The United States Coast Guard pilots made the single engine landing feel routine. No panic, just straight professionalism," Mullin said on X.
The plane's pilot reported the loss of an engine to air traffic controllers at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.