A snowstorm had forced them down.
No one was injured, and the Associated Press reported at the time
that "the senators and their delegation returned to Bagram Air Base in
a motor convoy, and left for Turkey.
"The weather closed in on us," Kerry told the AP
at the time in a phone interview from Turkey. "It went pretty blind,
pretty fast and we were around some pretty dangerous ridges. So the
pilot exercised his judgment that we were better off putting down
there, and we all agreed...We sat up there and traded stories."
Kerry joked, "We were going to send Biden out to fight the Taliban
with snowballs, but we didn't have to do it…Other than getting a little
cold, it was fine."
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