Posted on 04/04/2002 12:21:08 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:14 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
WASHINGTON -- Pilots have flown through the prohibited airspace protecting the White House at least 94 times over the past decade, illustrating the challenges of thwarting a terrorist airstrike on the nation's capital.
Even with military jets patrolling the skies, four commercial airliners and a medical helicopter have crossed into Washington's no-fly zone since the Sept. 11 suicide hijackings, Federal Aviation Administration officials say. The latest was on Monday.
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If they were schoolchildren shooting spitballs at the White House, they'd get life.
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