Posted on 05/11/2005 9:06:58 AM PDT by pitinkie
Capital and WH being evacuated.."full running evac"
CSPAN is showing a previous tape--not live.
Too bad we can't see the CongressCritters in action. [I'd bet they are in the process of changing their clothes before returning to the chambers.]
cankers or ankles?
Wow...time flies. My oldest worked on the restoration of the Pentagon after 9-11, and just had a big meeting with Homeland Security for future project. He spent alot of time up in DC...looks like he will be going back.
Never mind.
I bet if they blow one of these idiots out of the skies one of these times, the rest of the idiots will get the message.
There's a block of restricted airspace over the National Mall and the White House (I think it's called "P-56" on the charts) that's a strict no-fly zone from the ground up to 18,000 feet. That is what this dweeb no doubt entered.
The reason I mentioned Reagan National is that this zone is two or three north of the main runway at DCA. When planes take off northbound from DCA, they have to make a hard left and follow the river northwest to clear the space; likewise, when they land south, they have to make an approach down the river then turn right at the last second to line up with the runway. I figured that maybe some airliner pilot let his concentration slip and drifted left into the restricted airspace.
But from what we're hearing here, it sounds like it was a private pilot with a massive recto-cranial inversion...how do you NOT fly around Washington and not know that there are some places that you Just Don't Go?
Right now, I expect he's landed at Andrews AFB, and scared out of his mother-loving mind. I hope he enjoys his flight, it might be the last time he ever sits in the left seat of an airplane.
}:-)4
It seemed to be a private plane--entered (no fly zone). It turned around then re-entered. NORAD statement expected soon...there seems to be a 'lack of co-ordinated activity'. This is something we should have learned since 9/11.--FOXN
re-evaluations of procedures (or lack of obeying them) due at homeland sec. expected (ibid.)
Yes and human beings may also shot the idiot down too and I would not care.
Polite Euphimism of the Day Award. ;)
The moment your plane is buzzed by a jet you better look like a submissive puppy in a instant to signal to those tigers that you are their slave from that moment on, or else.
LOL...I get stranger by the minute...
"TWO OF YOUR SNOT-NOSED JOCKEYS DID A FLYBY IN MY TOWER AT OVER FOUR HUNDRED KNOTS!!!!!!!!!"""
Yeh, Peach...this is the only few days we've had of clear weather and after 9-11, the clouds seem to coverup my fears and my mind often drifted to: They couldn't attack us today because of the clouds. (It also messes up my GPS system. It can't get through heavy cloudcover).
We wanted our son to go to GWU...would love to visit DC and him..I grew up going into NYC so no big deal. Glad you are ok..missed you!
A small plane drives the Whitehouse nuts, yet, millions can pour through our borders.
Hehe...oh, THAT got his attention, I bet. Poor guy's trolling along at 100 knots, utterly clueless, and all of a sudden a Falcon screams across in front of him dropping countermeasure flares? It'd be hilarious if it wasn't a serious national security issue.
Hope his significant other sends him clean underwear.
}:-)4
Yes. In completely
different circumstances, I
once had a SWAT team
train their guns on me.
Time stops, you do EXACTLY
what the guys tell you . . .
Apparently.
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