Obama-san, where is the Jap fleet now?
Posted on 01/12/2008 5:01:03 PM PST by NautiNurse
A late night incident involving presidential candidate Barack Obama's plane has set off a National Transportation Safety Board investigation.
The senator's aircraft clipped the wing of another plane at Midway Airport.
No one was injured in the incident. Obama and his entourage were on their way back from campaigning in Nevada.
The National Transportation Safety Board will look into this, but it is a relatively minor incident as far as airplane accidents go.
The plane is parked now. Not going anywhere anytime soon. On board at 2:30 Saturday morning: Senator Barack Obama, three staffers, secret service and flight crew. The plane was taxing to the private side of the airfield and a parking place at Atlantic Aviation. That's when the left wing of Obama's plane clipped the right wing of a parked and unoccupied Cessna turbo-prop.
The Obama campaign chartered the airplane. It's a Gulfstream-2. The plane itself was built in 1968 and is registered to Long Charter Air out of Lithonia, Georgia.
"The Las Vegas dream is the American dream for our people," said Sen. Barack Obama, (D) presidential candidate.
Senator Obama has been sprinting across the country, jetting between South Carolina and Nevada. Friday, Illinois' freshman Senator reveled in the endorsement of the 60,000 member union that represents food service workers in Las Vegas and across the state.
A spokesman for Obama says the plane incident won't ground the senator or his campaign. Obama was in Chicago Saturday having private time with his family before he flies back to Nevada Sunday -- likely on a different plane.
Just too damn many candidates out on the campaign trail. The air traffic control system was never build for this kind of volume. :)
Affirmative action airlines .
Just a little warning from the Clinton campaign.
I can’t believe I’ll be the first to post this.
Attempted Arkancide!
Strange thing when Obama’s left wing clips the right wing...
Maybe Obama is on his way to another Wellstone Memorial... as the guest of honor.
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“The Las Vegas dream is the American dream for our people,”
Gambling, cheap booze and hookers?
Winning $10,000 at a blackjack table is the American dream?
The first of many taxes if he gets his way.
Obama-san, where is the Jap fleet now?
With a change in aircraft, the plan is set in motion.
ROFL! I missed that one. Too funny!
Haven't figured out how or why that quote ended up in a story about an aircraft collision. Very strange.
Another warning I bet.
The gang that couldn’t taxi straight!
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