Former President Donald Trump's private Boeing 757 was diverted for an emergency landing in Billings, Montana, on the way to his rally in Bozeman. According to a local radio station, the landing was required due to a "hydraulic leak." The aircraft, commonly known as " Trump Force Once," landed safely, and the former president is expected to take a private jet the rest of the way to his destination.
Trump has owned the 757 since 2011, when it replaced an older Boeing 727 he originally purchased from his failed Trump Shuttle airline, which had previously been a commuter service for the now-defunct Eastern Airlines prior to the Trump Organization acquiring it. The former president has boasted that the aircraft is more luxurious than Air Force One , although experts have said the 757 is rapidly aging and, being a retrofitted commercial airliner, is larger and less well-pressurized than private aircraft typically enjoyed by the super-wealthy. Trump's rally in Bozeman, the first to be held since last week, will take place at 8 p.
m. local time, or 10 p.m.
Eastern Time. ALSO READ: 21 worthless knick-knacks Donald Trump will give you for your cash Donald Trump's recent — and demonstrably false — tale of a near-helicopter crash was apparently not the first time Trump had made such a claim involving a helicopter. During his news conference on Thursday, Trump shared a story about a near-helicopter crash with former California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown .
Brown denied the story and.