Coast Guard plane carrying DHS secretary makes emergency landing after engine failure

No injuries were reported after the plane landed at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

A Coast Guard plane carrying Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and more than a dozen other people made an emergency landing Wednesday following an engine failure.

The Gulfstream jet landed at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in the Virginia suburbs of Washington. No injuries were reported.

The pilot said in an audio recording communication with air traffic control that “we just lost our right engine and would like to declare an emergency and an immediate landing at DCA.”

The pilot said in the recording that 14 people were on board and that the plane had about 2½ hours’ worth of fuel.

Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va. Kevin Carter / Getty Images fileThe call from the pilot, which came in around 1:35 p.m. ET, cited “a possible mechanical issue” and asked to divert the plane to Reagan Airport, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority said in a statement.