At today's Pentagon briefing, a reporter asked how this kid managed to pull this off. "Indeterminate amount of training flights going on at all times" so says Rear ADM. John Stufflebeem in today's briefing. The good Admiral could only offer that all the involved agencies are re-thinking their procedures.
That bothers me, too. I remember an incident where Hubby and a friend overflew a naval base in Virginia, in a gas company helicopter...and you can BETCHA there were fighter jets escorting them our of the airspace IMMEDIATELY. That was years BEFORE 9-11. You'd think that military base security would INCREASE rather than DECREASE since 9-11.