The “electrical issue” aboard Air Force One Tuesday night that forced President Donald Trump’s Europe-bound plane to turn back is raising troubling questions about the age of the decades-old aircraft flying the president.
The Air Force has long been working to upgrade the aging fleet, and Trump has been pushing for changes to the Air Force One program dating back to his first term.
The plane that needed to turn back, a Boeing 747-200B, landed safely in Maryland just after 11 p.m. ET. It is a part of the Air Force’s VC-25A program that includes Air Force One. Trump was in a replacement aircraft roughly an hour later, en route to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
The plane turned back to Joint Base Andrews out of an abundance of caution, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
“This has to be one of the best maintained planes in the world,” said Ma
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