You are an idiot. Do you really think people would panic and evacuate if this was common ?
Actually, I’m not an idiot, but thank you for the gratuitous insult.
OK, it’s not particularly common, but lots of uncommon things happen in big cities without upsetting the natives. I’m surprised that New Yorkers didn’t take it in their stride, and I suspect the perpetrators were surprised too.
I mean it was a VERY recognizable plane and if you think AF 1 is hijackable then you really are a cook! And if it was too far away to be identifiable as AF 1 then it wasn’t an issue in the first place..
Clearly the military or the administration misjudged this situation and frightened the people. But consider this... they actually did us a favor today - either one of two things happened.
Either 0bama’s administration ordered the photo shoot and by not publicizing it they unwittingly gave nervous New Yorkers a nasty reminder of 9/11 just when 0bama and his minions had pretty much swept the war on terror under the carpet...
or..
The military used the request to take the photos to deliberately give New York a short sharp reminder to scupper 0bama’s attempt to minimize the war on terror.
So my view is that it was a good thing, perhaps a few liberal New Yorkers will now think twice about supporting the Messiah.