Air Force One Photo Opp Triggers Panic in Manhattan
***System of Notifying the Public Broke Down, Officials Say***
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Although the shoot was authorized, the normal system of public notification broke down, multiple officials said. “It scared a couple of million people,” one airport official said.
According to officials, the flight — authorized by the FAA — came in as low as 1000 feet to 150 feet above the city as it made a large circle over Manhattan,
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http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=7439287&page=1
Translated: officials in CYA mode
From the ABC News report...
“Gibbs said he had no other information about the flyover other than news reports he had seen. “I was working on other things,” Gibbs said. “You might be surprised to know I don’t know every movement of Air Force One or what happens to it.”
An airplane is not “Air Force One” unless the president is on it.