Posted on 11/08/2010 6:43:08 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
A large commercial airplane flies low and slow over Willis Tower, causing curiosity and sudden fear among the crowd of people walking on downtown streets.
Did the pilot veer off course? Or was the flight path intentional?
With the public's nerves frayed over homeland security concerns, the sight of the plane would surely bring to mind the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, as well as recent attempts by terrorists to place explosives aboard passenger and cargo planes.
"It was flying so low that everyone on the street stopped to stare," one observer e-mailed the Tribune after the incident one morning last month. "I was walking down Jackson Boulevard at the Chicago River when I saw the plane flying directly east, right past Willis Tower. It was way too close for comfort."
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
I’m surprised the insurance company for this building doesn’t have a surface-to-air missile on the roof ready to go. This building is an obvious target for the terrorists.
Yes ... the leftist press is really good at providing irrelevant photographs, which do not match the thing they pretend to be describing.
Must be a fun beach to relax on...
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