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Air Force scrambles F-16 to fire flares and warn off an unauthorized aircraft which had entered air space over Donald Trump's Arizona rally
Daily Mail ^ | 10/28/2020 | Harriet Alexander

Posted on 10/28/2020 4:29:01 PM PDT by marcusmaximus

An Air Force jet was scrambled above Donald Trump's rally in Arizona on Wednesday after an unannounced plane flew overhead.

'Oh, look at that! Look, look, look!' the president yelled, pointing to the sky.

The F-16 attempted to make contact, and the aircraft initially ignored the jets.

The fighter plane then released flares, and the intruding aircraft then established radio communications and was escorted out the area.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arizona; aviation; dsj03; f16; flares; intercept; isolatedincidents; trumprally
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1 posted on 10/28/2020 4:29:01 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

I didn’t know Hillary had a pilot’s license.


2 posted on 10/28/2020 4:31:14 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

Hillary on her broom.


3 posted on 10/28/2020 4:31:44 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

She flies a broom.


4 posted on 10/28/2020 4:33:01 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: marcusmaximus

The fighter plane then released flares


Ruh roh. That is not something I would want to see while piloting a private aircraft.


5 posted on 10/28/2020 4:33:02 PM PDT by lodi90
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6 posted on 10/28/2020 4:36:35 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: marcusmaximus

He’s got some splainin to do, I watched a guy takeoff from WHP during a TFR, he got 100 miles before they made contact and then he was escorted back and allowed to sit in his plane without moving or getting out until the Feds showed up 2 hours Later.


7 posted on 10/28/2020 4:37:18 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: marcusmaximus

I live just east of Nashville, very near the path that AF-1 would take from Andrews to Nashville for the debate when I heard an unusually loud jet nearby (I live close to the Lebanon airport). Turns out the F-16 was circling the airport until a small private plane landed and taxied well off the runway.


8 posted on 10/28/2020 4:37:44 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (If the meanings in the Constitution can change, why did they bother writing it down?)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

Great Answer
Hillary LOL


9 posted on 10/28/2020 4:37:58 PM PDT by RWGinger (Does anyone else really)
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To: marcusmaximus

I would think those/that protective jet would have already up in the air, watching over the area the prez is in!


10 posted on 10/28/2020 4:38:35 PM PDT by Exit148
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To: marcusmaximus

I was watching when it happened, POTUS did seem concerned at first, I thought it was planned, evidently not. The protection our POTUS receives is uncanny.


11 posted on 10/28/2020 4:39:41 PM PDT by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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Oh - wow - that is not what the President and the crowd were happy about!


12 posted on 10/28/2020 4:41:13 PM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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I was watching RSBN also - didn’t see the other jet but saw the President pointing to the sky and talking about it - thought it was a “salute” of some kind.....am sure he found out the facts once back on AF1.


13 posted on 10/28/2020 4:42:52 PM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

I heard him say, don’t worry, it’s one of ours.


14 posted on 10/28/2020 4:43:32 PM PDT by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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To: eastforker

Yes, I heard that too.


15 posted on 10/28/2020 4:43:56 PM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

Then I got to thinking about it and thought, the POTUS wouldn’t use the military during a campaign speech, he would catch hell for that.


16 posted on 10/28/2020 4:45:32 PM PDT by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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To: lodi90
"Ruh roh. That is not something I would want to see while piloting a private aircraft."

Ask not, pilot, for whom the Darwin tolls.
The Darwin tolls for thee.
  - Excerpts from "The Flares of Darwin" by Tinyowl ©2020

:-)

17 posted on 10/28/2020 4:45:53 PM PDT by tinyowl (A is A)
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To: Fiddlstix
My former mother-in-law monster-in-law used a similar piece of equipment to travel.
18 posted on 10/28/2020 4:46:20 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: eastforker

Good point.


19 posted on 10/28/2020 4:46:55 PM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: eastforker

Man was the twitter sewer on fire when that happened. Couldn’t believe the POTUS would use the military in one of his rallies, that’s my taxes paying for his act, etc, etc. blah blah.

Must be miserable to be a modern day liberal.


20 posted on 10/28/2020 4:47:33 PM PDT by MNlurker
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