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

A plane carrying DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin was diverted to a Washington, D.C., area airport after it declared an emergency.

The Coast Guard Gulfstream jet, which had 14 people onboard, landed at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on the afternoon of Wednesday, Sept. 2

The aircraft landed safely at Reagan National Airport after losing its right engine midflight, with all 14 people aboard safe.

The pilot declared an emergency after the ​right engine failed on a flight from Atlanta to the Washington, D.C., area and ​landed at Reagan, according to Mullin and air traffic ⁠control ⁠audio. The C-37A plane had ⁠14 ​people on board, according to the pilot. ​It landed ⁠around 1:35 p.m. ET (1735 GMT)

You might think a twin-engine aircraft is safer in the case that an engine fails since it has another one to back it up. Actually, it can be more dangerous.

Engine failure on a U.S. Coast Guard plane forces an emergency landing in Virginia carrying Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin.

A Coast Guard-operated Gulfstream V jet carrying Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin safely diverted to Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday

A plane carrying Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin made an emergency landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) Wednesday.