DEVELOPING Overnight: Air Force One Forced To Turn Around
Amy & T.J.
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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
As of this recording, President Trump is on his way to Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum, three hours behind schedule. Air Force One had to turn around 45 minutes into its flight because of an electrical issue with the plane. With the President’s major speech set for 8:30am ET, last night’s detour may push back the schedule for today. Amy and T.J. discuss exactly what happened, and why this plays right into the recent controversy over that Qatari jet gifted to Trump by the royal family…. A plane Trump has said will be ready to fly as Air Force One, next month.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:15.7 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:16.8 | It is Wednesday, January 21st, and a developing story while you were sleeping overnight. |
| 0:23.7 | Air Force One forced to turn around mid-flight because of an issue with the plane. |
| 0:32.1 | And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Robs. |
| 0:35.9 | This happened late last night. I was up late enough and saw it happening |
| 0:39.5 | late. You had gone to bed a little early, but it's scary anytime you hear that there is an issue |
| 0:44.9 | with any plane, the one carrying the president, certainly sets off some alarm bells. That's right. I mean, |
| 0:50.3 | you can say it was, oh, a minor electrical issue, but I would feel like any electrical issue, you can call it minor, sounds pretty important to me when it comes to flying a plane and certainly flying a plane with the president of the United States in tow. |
| 1:05.5 | This was not a, this wasn't a, I immediately, I mean, it took less than 15 seconds when i saw this story that i |
| 1:11.4 | immediately thought about harrison ford in air force one right what's going on in plane there's |
| 1:15.2 | an emergency what but so they didn't use the word emergency we should say that first and foremost but |
| 1:19.6 | yes their term in quotes is minor electrical issue with air force one we'll tell you and a lot of |
| 1:26.2 | you all know as we are recording this |
| 1:27.7 | actually, the flight is still in the air. The president is running a little behind. He's supposed |
| 1:31.9 | to be at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. That's where he was headed. But |
| 1:35.3 | robes he took off. The flight took off at about 940 last night, and it was back in the United |
| 1:40.7 | States not too long after. Yes. the minor electrical issue happened 30 to 45 |
| 1:45.9 | minutes into the flight. Reporters said that the lights flashed off. That's got to be a scary |
| 1:52.0 | moment at any point when you're on a plane. And so they said the decision was made out of an abundance |
| 1:57.6 | of caution to turn the plane around. They landed in Maryland, I believe, at 11.07. |
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