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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: MarineUS on June 07, 2012, 04:11:46 AM
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By NBC News and msnbc.com news services
An F-16 fighter jet intercepted a small private plane after it entered airspace that had been restricted because of a visit by President Barack Obama to Los Angeles on Wednesday night, defense officials told NBC News.
The single-engine Cessna 117 was intercepted northwest of Los Angeles shortly before 5 p.m. PT (8 p.m. ET) and escorted to a landing a small nearby airfield where it was met by law enforcement officers, according to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
Local airspace had been cleared while Obama visited a fundraiser at the Regent Beverly Wilshire held by gay and lesbian supporters.
The Associated Press reported that the airfield was in Camarillo, citing a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman.
The AP said there have have been similar incidents when Obama visited Los Angeles in the past. In May, a pilot mistakenly flew into restricted airspace as the president was about to leave the city from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
A similar scenario played out during Obama's February visit, when F-16 jets intercepted a plane that entered the airspace of Obama's helicopter, Marine One. That plane was forced to land at Long Beach Airport, where police said they found about 40 pounds of marijuana during a search of the Cessna, and the pilot was arrested.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/07/12099156-f-16-scrambled-after-plane-strays-into-obamas-restricted-airspace?lite
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Whoops!
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Damn pigs. :cry
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How do you really feel Tit?
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How do you really feel Tit?
:O
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Happens quite often. Pilots don't check NOTAMS or TFRs like they should.
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How do you really feel Tit?
All dat weed.....Gone. :cry
:devil :bolt:
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Another terrorist stopped cold in his tracks, 'murca!
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The single-engine Cessna 117 was intercepted
What is a Cessna 117? Picture?
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Happens quite often. Pilots don't check NOTAMS or TFRs like they should.
This people dont realize there is a ring of restricted airspace around the president all the time.
Puma its just a tiny single engine tricycle gear cessna.
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The president is emitting a force field continually :rofl
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This people dont realize there is a ring of restricted airspace around the president all the time.
Puma its just a tiny single engine tricycle gear cessna.
Which one? Got a picture of the 117?
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Probably just a typo. Might be a 177?
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All dat weed.....Gone. :cry
:devil :bolt:
Up in smoke.
This story is old.
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Probably just a typo. Might be a 177?
I wasnt familiar with it either and I just google searched it.
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Yeah, I wasn't sure if it was a new production aircraft or another example of the media not getting even the basic facts correct. Thanks!
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I confused this with a story from February.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/17/us-obama-airspace-intercept-idUSTRE81F2BS20120217
(Reuters) - A small plane with more than 20 pounds of marijuana strayed into restricted airspace around President Barack Obama's helicopter on Thursday in Los Angeles, prompting U.S. F-16 fighters to rush to intercept it, officials said.
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Don't forget about the little old flying her vintage a/c that was intercepted by F-16s. She thought they were admiring her a/c.
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I know a steerman got pulled over by an F-15 and was only doing 100 kts. Story goes that the F-15 had full flaps and was about 10 degrees nose up the whole time.
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By NBC News and msnbc.com news services
An F-16 fighter jet intercepted a small private plane after it entered airspace that had been restricted because of a visit by President Barack Obama to Los Angeles on Wednesday night, defense officials told NBC News.
The single-engine Cessna 117 was intercepted northwest of Los Angeles shortly before 5 p.m. PT (8 p.m. ET) and escorted to a landing a small nearby airfield where it was met by law enforcement officers, according to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
Local airspace had been cleared while Obama visited a fundraiser at the Regent Beverly Wilshire held by gay and lesbian supporters.
The Associated Press reported that the airfield was in Camarillo, citing a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman.
The AP said there have have been similar incidents when Obama visited Los Angeles in the past. In May, a pilot mistakenly flew into restricted airspace as the president was about to leave the city from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
A similar scenario played out during Obama's February visit, when F-16 jets intercepted a plane that entered the airspace of Obama's helicopter, Marine One. That plane was forced to land at Long Beach Airport, where police said they found about 40 pounds of marijuana during a search of the Cessna, and the pilot was arrested.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/07/12099156-f-16-scrambled-after-plane-strays-into-obamas-restricted-airspace?lite
If I have time I'll stop by there after the dentist this afternoon, but will probabley hear all about it on Saturday. :rofl
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The national pastime in the lower mainland of British Columbia for the last 10 years was to buy a 172, get your 50 hours and license quickly, fly 100 or so pounds of Marijuana to a destination in the United States, sell it for twice what you would normally get in Canada for that product (also in US Dollars which ten or twelve years ago was like doubling the profits nearly again), and then fly home. This was all done without flight plans filed obviously, and there were a number of crashes into the mountains near Abbotsford BC over the years, mainly pilots who were inexperienced running into weather or darkness. There would often be a hunt sort of like Eater Egg morning, but the prize would be a crashed plane, a dead body, and about a quarter million dollars of cash or weed up in those hills after a crash.
Well, with the advent of the Drones patrolling the border, there has been a LOT more arrests lately. A lot of criminals switched to rotary wing aircraft flying out of Kelowna in the interior doing the same crap but with more weight of marijuana going down, and cocaine or cash coming back up. There was some big stories about these pilots on Kim Bolans crime blog with the Vancouver Sun newspaper, pretty interesting stuff to read about. I can't wait for the first tard to get blown out of the sky by a sidewinder equipped drone.
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Gotta protect all the foreigners from us Americans. :devil