Posted on 04/30/2003 10:43:17 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:02:53 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
President Bush plans to make history today by landing in a small plane on a moving aircraft carrier hundreds of miles from shore to declare an end to the combat phase of the war in Iraq.
The White House downplayed any danger to the president, whose four-person Navy S-3B Viking anti-submarine aircraft will hook onto a steel cable after landing to prevent it from plunging off the flight deck and into the Pacific Ocean. Mr. Bush will be in the co-pilot's seat.
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