White house & Capitol evacuated

[Thrawn]

Originally posted by Tumor
Good grief... that's pretty much the entire country.  So, the seat of the entire government doesn't deserve a certain greater amount of protection, even given it's a proven high-threat area?  I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Bald Knob Arkansas is not in need of the level of protection Washington D.C. is.

I could see protecting the head of state.  But as far as legislators are concerned, nope.  In fact I think when they are sitting in Parilment or Congress they should do so in wobbly chairs over a pit of flaming magma.

But.. it's all Booshe's fault isn't it?

A pre-emptive whine has been recorded.

[bunch]

i would have loved to see the F-16 with a little silohette of a C-150 painted on the side just under the canopy

[Tumor]

Originally posted by Thrawn


A pre-emptive whine has been recorded.

Oh rich.. coming from King Ameriwhiner himself

[Thrawn]

Originally posted by Tumor
Oh rich.. coming from King Ameriwhiner himself

I prefer God-Emperor Amerihiner.

[capt. apathy]

all in all I'll call it a sucessful (though unplanned) test.

they evacuated the primary targets.  engaged, ID'd and escorted the threat without over-reacting and blowing the poor SOB out of the sky.

good work all the way around, would be my call.

[Jackal1]

Yea, I`d have to say the evacuation and ground procedures went pretty well. I do , however, think 3 miles is cutting it a tad bit close. The numbnuts flying the plane needs to be counting his lucky stars.

[Naso]

Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Curious just  how much damage a Cessna could to to either building.

See here:



A Rockwell 112 TC on a building in Milan.

around 2 dead and half hundred wounds.

No explosives on board, naturally.

[Monk]

What was the final verdict on that, suicide?

[BTAirsol]

I think the real concern and us being vunerable is that a dirty bomb (Radioactive) detenated on the plane within 3 miles of our capitol is very possible. Wheather it hits on ground or in air, the wind would carry the stuff and make area inhabital.

[Chairboy]

Sure, but you can drive a TRUCK to within a few hundred feet of the capital and detonate it, and it could carry more radioactive material and more explosive to spread it then any Cessna 152, an airplane with like a 450lb useful load.  Subtract the weight of the pilot, the fuel needed, and even play around with the max gross, and it's still an order of a magnitude smaller then what a truck could carry.  This is in response to the 'dirty bomb' argument.

For the Milan pic, the Rockwell 112 has a max gross of 2,800lbs and cruise of 135 knots.  The Cessna 152 has a max gross of 1,600 and cruise of 107knots.  So the kinetic energy of the Rockwell is a little over twice that of the Cessna.  No conclusions, just a point of comparison.

[Fishu]

From the news I heard they've interrogated a flight instructor and a student in the case.
Sounds like they've been on a training flight.


Drediock,



Wreckage from a Cessna 172 aircraft hangs from a skyscraper in Tampa, Florida

...didn't even demolish the office too badly.

LOL, I didn't know about this until searching for this thread:
TAMPA, Florida (CNN) -- The mother of a teen-age boy who flew a Cessna aircraft into a Tampa office building filed a $70 million wrongful death and negligence lawsuit Tuesday against the manufacturers of a drug the boy took to treat acne.



Naso,

I think that was a bigger plane than a 152 or 172.
Wasn't it a twin turboprop which hit that building?