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NORAD intercepting Air France 68 now (plane has landed without incident)
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Posted on 12/30/2003 3:47:17 PM PST by BurbankKarl

if you have a good scanner in So Cal, tune to 271.0, set it in AM mode and listen to Norad intercept Air France flight 68, due at LAX 515pm

two F16s from AZ current refueling off Pacific


TOPICS: Extended News; US: California; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: airfrance; cdg; f16; greatthreads; lax; norad
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To: rwfromkansas

221 posted on 12/30/2003 4:36:19 PM PST by al baby (Ice cream does not have bones)
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To: rotstan
Looks like it might fly near there.
222 posted on 12/30/2003 4:36:25 PM PST by cmsgop ( It comes out your bum,Like a bullet from a gun,.."Diarrhea, Diarrhea"...........)
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To: God luvs America
Air France site has now removed "flight has been delayed for security precautions" from the flight data.

I'm wondering if that refers to the plane's departure time, and subsequently the arrival time.

FlightView says that the plane was scheduled to depart at 1:35 PM (presumably local time), but actually departed at 3:29 PM.

It is estimated to arrive at LAX at 5:47 PM (local?), but was scheduled to arrive at 4:05 PM.

Perhaps they had some sort of delay back in Paris, attributable to security, but cleared the plane for departure after all? Then, while the plane was enroute, they discovered some new information?

223 posted on 12/30/2003 4:36:40 PM PST by justlurking
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To: Husker24
I have a fuzzy recollection that that is NOT the case.

It seems to me there was some doc after 9/11 that

that particular decision

had been pushed down the chain of command significantly to insure timeliness in a repeat situation.

I could be wrong.
224 posted on 12/30/2003 4:36:52 PM PST by Quix (Particularly quite true conspiracies are rarely proven until it's too late to do anything about them)
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To: chainsaw
I remember reading that a long time ago. Hilarious. It would be great if someone could find the link again.
225 posted on 12/30/2003 4:36:55 PM PST by savedbygrace
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To: LikeLight
Agreed. I suspect this is a non-story, except that flights from France or Mexico, or some suspect place will be shadowed by our AF. That is a story.
226 posted on 12/30/2003 4:37:13 PM PST by chiller (could be wrong, but doubt it)
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To: Revolting cat!
NORAD: North American Air Defense command
SOP: Standard Operating Procedure
LAX: Los Angeles International Airport's 3 letter code
LOL: Laughing Out Loud
AWACS: Airborne Warning and Control System (an airborne command aircraft with elaborate radar and communications equipment)
SOB: Son of a B....
CDG: probably Commanding General (usually CG)
227 posted on 12/30/2003 4:37:28 PM PST by CatoRenasci (Ceterum Censeo [Gallia][Germania][Arabia] Esse Delendam --- Select One or More as needed)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
Moosapult? :-)
228 posted on 12/30/2003 4:37:44 PM PST by Viking2002
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
specially if the moose has cheese
229 posted on 12/30/2003 4:38:52 PM PST by cajun-jack
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To: BurbankKarl
Your post just refered to on the Steve Quail shortwave radio show 3210 Khz WWCR or you can here him on the net.
230 posted on 12/30/2003 4:39:00 PM PST by eternity (From here to...)
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To: TomGuy
They are like sperm and LAX is the Egg........LOL!
231 posted on 12/30/2003 4:39:14 PM PST by cmsgop ( It comes out your bum,Like a bullet from a gun,.."Diarrhea, Diarrhea"...........)
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To: JHENN22499
Paris, France is way far north, and they are taking the great circle route which should take the flight even farther north.
232 posted on 12/30/2003 4:39:22 PM PST by steve in DC
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To: Viking2002
Yes. You lure them onto the mooseapult with cheese, but only if you're logged on.
233 posted on 12/30/2003 4:39:23 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (Proud member of the right wing extremist Neanderthals.)
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To: chiller
If anything, at least I got a few great links to aircraft tracking sites now. =)
234 posted on 12/30/2003 4:39:28 PM PST by KillTime
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To: BurbankKarl
McChord AFB and Western Air Defense Sector ... is approximately 1.9 million square miles, about 63% of the continental. United States.


235 posted on 12/30/2003 4:39:30 PM PST by XBob
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To: Viking2002

Get Me the President on the horn


236 posted on 12/30/2003 4:39:42 PM PST by al baby (Ice cream does not have bones)
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To: eternity
Is Steve Quail a Freeper?
237 posted on 12/30/2003 4:40:31 PM PST by Pan_Yans Wife (Submitting approval for the CAIR COROLLARY to GODWIN'S LAW.)
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To: CatoRenasci
SOB=Souls on Board
238 posted on 12/30/2003 4:40:42 PM PST by realpatriot (Tagline moved to chat-tagline moderator)
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To: SauronOfMordor
Fuel + alternate airport + 90 min extra fuel

FAR part 135, FAA regs., I believe
239 posted on 12/30/2003 4:40:46 PM PST by Finalapproach29er ("Don't shoot Mongo, you'll only make him mad.")
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To: All
OK....
Everyone's just going to have to SLOW DOWN here.
I'm having to refresh every 5 seconds and I don't have time to post.
I'm trying to keep up....
Is this the NORMAL flight path that we are witnessing?
Have flight paths been altered since we are at orange?
How can an Air Force pilot "volunteer" for this kind of exercise? That's very "un"-Air Force...
240 posted on 12/30/2003 4:41:37 PM PST by baltodog (When you're hanging from a hook, you gotta' get a bigger boat, or something like that.)
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