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.
Yes I agree. This meeting was probably “arranged” for him.
“Long Charter Air out of Lithonia, Georgia”
Google that and you find connections to Creflo Dollar!
Gambling, cheap booze and hookers?
***Singing*** “These are a few of my favorite things...”
Maybe this was a dry run.
There was the auto accident involving his wife and kids a few weeks ago. Wasn’t there one other accident previously too?
The man better keep an eye out so long as he’s winning. :P
The company appears to own only one plane, N747NB. The mailing address for the company is the same as the address of Bishop Eddie Long's church. My guess is that he bought himself a plane and set up a company to lease it out when he wasn't using it.
This was a fender-bender. No injuries, little damage; Obama's charter clipped a parked plane. The NTSB investigates anything that scuffs the paint of an aircraft.
hilary was quoted as saying, “That’s not what I meant by Obama needs his wings clipped...”
Yikes!
LOL!
It’s miy dream. And I realized it.
It’s my dream. And I realized it.
There was the auto accident involving his wife and kids a few weeks ago. Wasn’t there one other accident previously too?
I haven’t heard that. What happened?
Very clever! Good on you. :o)
Thanks Nurse! ;-)
Cheers!
Geez Louise, Midway Airport may be small as 'major' airports go but it's not like he's trying to find a parking space in The Loop.
Uh huh. Get rich quick, hit the jackpot, OPM.
How many go home broke?
If this is his idea of what sort of change the American People need, we'd be in deep doo-doo if he ever gets elected.
The American Dream used to be to get a job, work your way up, own your home, (start a business), raise your family, and retire comfortably, assembly and some sweat equity (or ingenuity--or both) required. That dream also involved the Government basically staying out of the way and letting you get the job done.
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