Posted on 09/30/2009 2:06:31 AM PDT by Cindy
BAY CITY — On a gusty October day last year, two F-16 fighter jets were scrambled at Ellington Airport in Houston and raced toward rural Matagorda County — home of the South Texas Project nuclear plant.
A small civilian plane was flying near the plant without broadcasting a proper transponder code, raising the specter of a 9-11-style terrorist attack. STP employees saw one of the F-16s roar past the nuclear reactors near Bay City on Oct. 23 at 1:30 p.m., company spokesman Buddy Eller said.
Minutes later, plant personnel dealt with a potential danger on the ground. At 1:40 p.m., a man was spotted in the parking lot carrying a rifle case. Security officers detained him.
Both incidents — first disclosed by the Bay City Tribune, a local newspaper — turned out to be unrelated false alarms.
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A year ago I was at Indiantown airport watching my son do touch and goes when I looked up and 6 Martin County Sheriff vehicles came roaring up.
I had a vhf radio I was listening to my kid with and I asked one cop what was going on?
He asked if any other planes had been around in the last 30 minutes and I told him just this little Cessna 150 and asked WHY?
He told me some fool had flown about a hundred feet over the Nuclear plant on Hutchinson Island and circled the plant for about 5 minutes.
They nearly shot the guy out of the sky.
He’d left heading south west and cops had been sent to every airport for miles looking for the white with black accents plane.
Boy I’m glad I’m not that guy but I never heard what the outcome was.
Of course security is only as good as your security personnel.
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