Why should USAir say anything? All they did was fly their usual flightpath and schedule...
It was some news-hungry reporter in a helicopter who started this nonsense. (BTW, where did that bogus "35 miles" figure come from?
That’s a good question. I am pretty sure I recall hearing them say, in the initial reports either that the chopper or the missile were 35 miles off the coast. Now I don’t remember where that number came from, but it’s what is stuck in my head.