NORAD intercepting Air France 68 now (plane has landed without incident)

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[BurbankKarl]

if you have a good scanner in So Cal, tune to 271.0, set it in AM mode and listen to Norad intercept Air France flight 68, due at LAX 515pm

two F16s from AZ current refueling off Pacific

[al baby]

[cmsgop]

Looks like it might fly near there.

[justlurking]

Air France site has now removed "flight has been delayed for security precautions" from the flight data.

I'm wondering if that refers to the plane's departure time, and subsequently the arrival time.

FlightView says that the plane was scheduled to depart at 1:35 PM (presumably local time), but actually departed at 3:29 PM.

It is estimated to arrive at LAX at 5:47 PM (local?), but was scheduled to arrive at 4:05 PM.

Perhaps they had some sort of delay back in Paris, attributable to security, but cleared the plane for departure after all? Then, while the plane was enroute, they discovered some new information?

[Quix]

I have a fuzzy recollection that that is NOT the case.

It seems to me there was some doc after 9/11 that

that particular decision

had been pushed down the chain of command significantly to insure timeliness in a repeat situation.

I could be wrong.

[savedbygrace]

I remember reading that a long time ago. Hilarious. It would be great if someone could find the link again.

[chiller]

Agreed. I suspect this is a non-story, except that flights from France or Mexico, or some suspect place will be shadowed by our AF. That is a story.

[CatoRenasci]

NORAD: North American Air Defense command
SOP: Standard Operating Procedure
LAX: Los Angeles International Airport's 3 letter code
LOL: Laughing Out Loud
AWACS: Airborne Warning and Control System (an airborne command aircraft with elaborate radar and communications equipment)
SOB: Son of a B....
CDG: probably Commanding General (usually CG)

[Viking2002]

Moosapult? :-)

[cajun-jack]

specially if the moose has cheese

[eternity]

Your post just refered to on the Steve Quail shortwave radio show 3210 Khz WWCR or you can here him on the net.

[cmsgop]

They are like sperm and LAX is the Egg........LOL!

[steve in DC]

Paris, France is way far north, and they are taking the great circle route which should take the flight even farther north.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Yes. You lure them onto the mooseapult with cheese, but only if you're logged on.

[KillTime]

If anything, at least I got a few great links to aircraft tracking sites now. =)

[XBob]

McChord AFB and Western Air Defense Sector ... is approximately 1.9 million square miles, about 63% of the continental. United States.

[al baby]

Get Me the President on the horn

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Is Steve Quail a Freeper?

[realpatriot]

SOB=Souls on Board

[Finalapproach29er]

Fuel + alternate airport + 90 min extra fuel

FAR part 135, FAA regs., I believe

[baltodog]

OK....
Everyone's just going to have to SLOW DOWN here.
I'm having to refresh every 5 seconds and I don't have time to post.
I'm trying to keep up....
Is this the NORMAL flight path that we are witnessing?
Have flight paths been altered since we are at orange?
How can an Air Force pilot "volunteer" for this kind of exercise? That's very "un"-Air Force...