[Marysecretary]

I still don’t understand WHY they flew over NYC. Did they ever give a reasonable answer?

[fours]

Giant waste of taxpayer expense that cost $350k. There's a letter posted on John McCain's website from Defense Secretary Robert Gates about it:

"The idea was to use the April 27 flight for publicity pictures that included the Statue of Liberty and the New York skyline. Instead, 911 emergency lines were clogged by people who saw the planes and thought it might be another terrorist attack, similar to the one on Sept. 11, 2001, when planes crashed into the World Trade Center, killing almost 3,000 people." -Secretary Gates

[silverleaf]

Find out who was on the plane. That will tell you why obama used Air Force One like a barnstormer.

[OneWingedShark]

>I still don’t understand WHY they flew over NYC. Did they ever give a reasonable answer?

I haven’t heard one.