US Diplomat's Air Force plane broke down for the fourth time in 2014
John Kerry was forced to fly home commercially when his aging Air Force Boeing 757 was grounded on Thursday with a mechanical problem
Vienna: Globe-trotting top US diplomat John Kerry was left hoofing it back on a commercial flight from Vienna on Thursday, after his ageing Air Force plane broke down for the fourth time in 2014. After marathon talks on Iran’s nuclear programme in the Austrian capital o0n Wednesday, Kerry’s party of more than 40 State Department staff and journalists were checking out of their hotel rooms before dawn on Thursday when the news came that his Boeing 757 needed unspecified repairs.
Since taking up his post in February 2013, Kerry has flown some 911,000 kilometres around the globe. He’s well on his way to overtaking his predecessor Hillary Clinton who flew just short of a million miles in her four years in office, visiting a record 112 countries.
( Source : AFP )
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