FAA and Air Force are being weirdly cryptic. This kind of thing happens with some frequency and those events are generally explained; Russia bomber/recon aircraft flew too close, unruly passenger, pilot violated NOTAM area, etc. On this, nothing.
Not only did they launch three fighters, which is really unusually, but they launched a KC-135 as well for refueling support.
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To: ScubaDiver
Probably going after all those White Supremacists SloJoe has been carping about.
2 posted on
06/15/2021 5:48:19 AM PDT by
LIConFem
(Bring a Commie to room temperature for Mommy)
To: ScubaDiver
50 foot Tic-Tac invasion?
4 posted on
06/15/2021 5:49:31 AM PDT by
Flick Lives
(“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
To: ScubaDiver
5 posted on
06/15/2021 5:49:41 AM PDT by
Cboldt
To: ScubaDiver
Better to play it safe than repeat 7 December again...
(I'd love to see F-22s vs Zeros though.)
6 posted on
06/15/2021 5:51:51 AM PDT by
Jonah Hex
To: ScubaDiver
Perhaps the coded message sent the FDR whitehouse finally got decoded.
7 posted on
06/15/2021 5:52:36 AM PDT by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
To: ScubaDiver
“Not only did they launch three fighters, which is really unusually, but they launched a KC-135 as well for refueling support.”
Very possibly this was nothing but a planned surprise alert such as is conducted by the USAF on regularly irregular basis. They are conducted to test reaction time and mission efficiency.
8 posted on
06/15/2021 5:54:35 AM PDT by
billyboy15
(')
To: ScubaDiver
“U.S. Indo-Pacific Command” the new United States Pacific Command.
To: ScubaDiver
Do Air National Guard United units actually have F-22s?
To: ScubaDiver
China getting uppity...........................
13 posted on
06/15/2021 6:02:03 AM PDT by
Red Badger
(You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy............. Nightbirde)
To: ScubaDiver
Cue the “I’m not sayin’ it was aliens” pic….
14 posted on
06/15/2021 6:03:22 AM PDT by
jdsteel
("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
To: ScubaDiver
Most likely the FAA lost contact with an airliner transiting from the mainland to Hawaii, and wanted the escort to ensure that another 9/11 wasn’t going down.
15 posted on
06/15/2021 6:03:53 AM PDT by
Yo-Yo
(is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: ScubaDiver
Were Barry and big mike flying to Hawaii?
17 posted on
06/15/2021 6:04:28 AM PDT by
PhiloBedo
(You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
To: ScubaDiver
I saw two A10s escort an airplane to an airport for flying over a restricted site after 911. The pilot was an air traffic controler.
18 posted on
06/15/2021 6:07:04 AM PDT by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: ScubaDiver
Trump issued a short-notice flight plan for Hawaii to troll gov. Ige, then pulled the flight plan.
/s
20 posted on
06/15/2021 6:15:06 AM PDT by
logi_cal869
(-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
To: ScubaDiver
UAP response.
Notice the bump in UAP, UFO, ET stories as of late?
What operation is trying to be hidden, with is palpitating UFO bubble up?
21 posted on
06/15/2021 6:19:41 AM PDT by
Clutch Martin
(The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
To: ScubaDiver
Probably searching for those nasty white supremacists.
To: ScubaDiver
“A third was launched at approximately 5 p.m.” Who's up there?
Cougar, Merlin, Maverick and Goose.
Great. Maverick and Goose. Launch the alert five aircraft.
24 posted on
06/15/2021 6:24:26 AM PDT by
NonValueAdded
(Claiming Racism, the antidote to personal responsibility)
To: ScubaDiver
Was Obama there? When I lived there jets buzzed around day and night for that bozo.
27 posted on
06/15/2021 7:08:59 AM PDT by
Organic Panic
(Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
To: ScubaDiver
To: ScubaDiver
The KC-135 may have been launched to take advantage of the opportunity and update the refueling qualification dates for a crew (or several crews). It’s likely from a Reserve unit and it’s normally a pain to schedule training for them.
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