White House approved Air Force One fly-over of NYC

Examiner.com ^ | 4-27-2009 | Dianna Cotter

[Danae]

In what can only be described as irresponsible, The President Obama’s back up plane to Air Force One flew at Manhattan buildings today for a “Photo-Op”.

That’s right. A Photo-op.

Terrified residents and workers in Manhattan scrambled to get out of buildings in the flight path, madly calling family and twittering as fast as they could that another terrorist attack was under way.

To the right a picture of the 747, known as Air Force One when the President is aboard, flies towards Manhattan followed closely by an F-16 Chase plane. One can easily see why people were very concerned today in the City.

According to the New York Times, the New York City Police were informed of the event, but were also told:

"it had been barred from alerting the public. “The flight of a VC-25 aircraft and F-16 fighters this morning was authorized by the F.A.A. for the vicinity of the Statue of Liberty with directives to local authorities not to disclose information about it but to direct any inquiries to the F.A.A. Air Traffic Security Coordinator,” the Police Department said in a statement."

However, the Mayor was not informed until he got repeated messages on his blackberry asking him if he knew what was going on. WHAT?

[Danae]

What can you even begin to say, the Obama Administration is completely inept.

[SandRat]

first he said he didn’t before he said he did....

[editor-surveyor]

What a DOOFUS!

[Pharmboy]

The dumbest administration in history. The first 100 days indeed...will we survive the next hundred?

[editor-surveyor]

Maybe its good that he does this crap. The more he does, the quicker he gets tossed!

[AmericanInTokyo]

Good gracious almighty!! Have the American people gone mad!!??? (electing this guy in the first place, and keeping him in office).

[Gator113]

Transparent, incompetent and corrupt liars....

[laweeks]

“Obama is said to be furious. “

Nonsense. If he’s furious, it’s because the whole thing was bumbled from the start. They wouldn’t do anything like this without his permission, and if they did, then that shows what an incompetent and out of control White House we currently have. What the hell is going on!

[peggybac]

What an arrogant piece of crap. I hate this man.

[Lurker]

This is beyond dumb. It's bag of rusty hammers STUPID. It's frigging malicious. I spoke to my brother who works in Manhattan today and some folks were just plain terrified.

Whoever approved this needs to be fired.

L

[Aquinasfan]

What the? A photo op? Whahut?

[1rudeboy]

These photos better be good. I wonder if we will ever see them now?

[Danae]

Completely Asinine. But then democrats do have a symbol of an ass........

[Constitutional Patriot]

Why should Barry care...he hates this country.

He is completely unserious about his job (just take a look at all of his stellar cabinet nominees...the ones he actually nominated, that is — still a lot of vacencies). His ignorance and arrogance will ultimately get a lot of Americans hurt (or worse).

But again, he hates this country so no surprise here.

[Doogle]

...my guess is if a movie crew wanted to set up actors around the White Hut with guns and requested that president Soros not be told, Michelle would have understood as she peered out a second story window checking the new garden.

[Danae]

Insane. No wonder people freaked out.

[SandRat]

must be a subliminal reason behind why they choose a Jackass for their part symbol.

[motor_racer]

Saudi king wants a picture of the NYC skyline with AF1 and no WTC. Bow, grovel, kiss ring, etc.

[heiss]

I hope somebody files Freedom of Information Act request and then post the photos. If only we had a media willing to do this..

[jveritas]

As usual they lied again. Even in simple stuff like this they cannot speak the truth imagine how much lying are they doing on the big issues.

PS: Why did you put this artile in bloggers and personal?