Whitehouse Partial Evac due threating plane

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24th Apr 2009, 16:52

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Whitehouse Partial Evac due threating plane

TTN & Fox saying Whitehouse Partial Evec due to place overhead in vialation.

24th Apr 2009, 16:55

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Looks like you're one of the people who evacuated the building by the way you wrote the news.

Check Six Krueger...

24th Apr 2009, 17:38

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No problem, although I'm sure they'll have a word with the pilot.

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AP -- Airplane causes scare at White House, Capitol
Pilot was in restricted airspace, then altered course after being told...

The pilot was then escorted by other aircraft and landed at nearby Indian Head Airport...

24th Apr 2009, 17:50

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Let's not lose sight of the fact that almost all the airspace anywhere near the capitol of the land of the free has been permanently placed off limits to much of general aviation.