Two U.S. F-15 fighter jets made emergency landings May 4 in the Hungarian capital Budapest, airport spokesman Domokos Szollar said.br /”Two F-15 fighters were forced to make emergency landings on Friday,” Szollar told commercial news radio, InfoRadio.br /”This is not an extraordinary event, this is an international and a NATO airport so the military presence is not unusual,” he added.br /The planes were traveling from Romania to Britain when the engines of one of the fighters malfunctioned, the MTI news agency reported, without citing its sources.br /Hungary and the United States are both members of the NATO military alliance.br /Hungarian defense officials refused to comment on the incident.

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