True story - I have a friend who was a CFI for an Air Force flying club in Korea. He had a student pilot almost land at a North Korea AFB until tracer rounds convinced him to abort.
He found his way back to his home base and had some neat little holes in the rudder assembly to prove his raid on the North Koreans.
Has anyone brought up the possibility that this was a "publicity stunt" by the federal security apparatus?
Within the last few weeks, AOPA has been saying that they were close to a final arrangement that would get access back for the DC-3 airports locked within the Washington airspace. I've got to think that GA aircraft have gotten this close before, yet this is the first time the panic button was pushed.
This wouldn't be the first time the feds have done such a thing. The "Waco" incident obviously started as publicity for the BATF, where they brought in media people up front, and staged an operation in front of cameras totally unnecessary to arrest one guy.
If we can stir up some pajamahadeen, here's some questions:
Have GA aircraft penetrated this close before? How many and when?
What is the status of the DC-3 airports, and what was the proposed "solution" that AOPA was talking about?
Who pushed the panic button yesterday?
Thanks for the ping list, and I hope we can get some answers.