US Secretary of State Antony Blinken flight out of Davos delayed by 'critical failure'

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who has travelled nearly incessantly since the Israel-Hamas war, was forced to delay his return Wednesday from Switzerland due to airplane trouble...

Blinken, who spent a day and a half at the Davos mountain resort for the World Economic Forum, was unable to leave Zurich due to what a US official called "critical failure" of the airplane due to an oxygen leak...

A separate plane was sent to retrieve Blinken, who had flown from Davos to Zurich by helicopter, with aides returning to Washington by commercial flight...

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