pleane scare in manhattan today......................

[That Nice Guy Beck!]

4/27/09 - Air Force One & Military Jet Flies Over Lower Manhattan, Scaring New Yorkers!








ended up being a photo shoot with the AF1 back up plane
still not good to see fighter jets and a jumbo plane flying low

[That Nice Guy Beck!]

 NEW YORK (CNN) -- A White House official apologized Monday after a low-flying Boeing 747 spotted above the Manhattan skyline frightened workers and residents into evacuating buildings.
Witnesses reported seeing the plane circle over the Upper New York Bay near the Statue of Liberty.

Witnesses reported seeing the plane circle over the Upper New York Bay near the Statue of Liberty.
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The huge aircraft, which functions as Air Force One when the president is aboard, was taking part in a classified, government-sanctioned photo shoot, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

"Last week, I approved a mission over New York. I take responsibility for that decision," said Louis Caldera, director of the White House Military Office. "While federal authorities took the proper steps to notify state and local authorities in New York and New Jersey, it's clear that the mission created confusion and disruption."

Witnesses reported seeing the plane circle over the Upper New York Bay near the Statue of Liberty before flying up the Hudson River. It was accompanied by two F-16s. Video Watch the plane fly over Manhattan »

Two officials told CNN the White House Military Office was trying to update its file photos of Air Force One. The officials said the president was angry when he learned Monday afternoon about the flight, which sparked fear in the New York-New Jersey area.

"The president was furious about it," one of the officials said. The incident outraged many New Yorkers, including Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

"First thing is, I'm annoyed -- furious is a better word -- that I wasn't told," he said, calling the aviation administration's decision to withhold details about the flight "ridiculous" and "poor judgment."

"Why the Defense Department wanted to do a photo op right around the site of the World Trade Center defies the imagination," he said. "Had we known, I would have asked them not to." Video Watch the White House respond to questions about the scare »

"I was here on 9/11," said iReporter Tom Kruk, who spotted the plane as he was getting coffee Monday morning and snapped a photo. Kruk called the sight of the aircraft low in the sky "unsettling."

Linda Garcia-Rose, a social worker who counsels post-traumatic stress disorder patients in an office just three blocks from where the World Trade Center towers once stood, called the flight an "absolute travesty."

"There was no warning. It looked like the plane was about to come into us," she said. "I'm a therapist, and I actually had a panic attack."
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Garcia-Rose, who works with nearly two dozen post-traumatic stress disorder patients ages 15 to 47, said she was inundated with phone calls from patients Monday morning.

"They're traumatized. They're asking 'How could this happen?' They're nervous. Their anxiety levels are high," she said.

Garcia-Rose is considering filing a class-action suit against the government for sanctioning the plane's unannounced flight. "I believe the government has done something really wrong," she said.

Capt. Anna Carpenter of Andrews Air Force Base said local law enforcement agencies and the Federal Aviation Administration had been given notice of the exercise.

New York Police Deputy Commissioner Paul J. Browne said the department had been alerted to the flight by the federal agency "with directives to local authorities not to disclose information about it."

Sen. Chuck Schumer echoed the mayor's sentiments in a separate news conference Monday afternoon, saying the Federal Aviation Administration should have notified the public to avoid panic.
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"It is absolutely outrageous and appalling to think that the FAA would plan such a photo shoot and not warn the public, knowing full well New Yorkers still have the vivid memory of 9/11 sketched in their minds," the New York Democrat said. Schumer said the FAA's decision to not announce the fly-by "really borders on being either cruel or very very stupid."

Building evacuations also took place across the Hudson River in Jersey City, New Jersey

[Sinister]

Sen. Chuck Schumer echoed the mayor's sentiments in a separate news conference Monday afternoon, saying the Federal Aviation Administration should have notified the public to avoid panic.
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"It is absolutely outrageous and appalling to think that the FAA would plan such a photo shoot and not warn the public, knowing full well New Yorkers still have the vivid memory of 9/11 sketched in their minds," the New York Democrat said. Schumer said the FAA's decision to not announce the fly-by "really borders on being either cruel or very very stupid."

It wasn't the FAA, Chuckie.  Funny who they DON'T blame it on (can't say).

[NAKID]

What a buncha idiots!

[Porsche Monkey]

Dude that's about as messed up as it gets. If I was in New York and I saw it, I would have been thinking bad things too.

[Grampa]

it was a plane full of swine flu spores... cloud seeding

[Porsche Monkey]

it was a plane full of swine flu spores... cloud seeding

[Grampa]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/28/felipe-solis-olguin-swine_n_192210.html

and who was  not on the plane?


it's a cons pirate see

[Monster Dave]

What a buncha idiots!

I second that. It's not like they don't have plenty of images of Air Force One already anyway.

....and come on, of ALL the places to do something like that....


....makes you wonder if the govt was testing the city to see how people would react if an unexpected event like that were to happen again. Probably the only true way to get a view of the cities "natural reaction."

Still retarded if you ask me.

[Sinister]

....makes you wonder if the govt was testing the city to see how people would react if an unexpected event like that were to happen again. Probably the only true way to get a view of the cities "natural reaction."

That is actually a viable theory being floated around.

[Grampa]

That is actually a viable theory being floated around.

floated.... like as in....

water?


waterboarding NYC?

[DRKWNG]

That is actually a viable theory being floated around.

Yea, but do you really think they would do that with a VC-25 of all things?  I could almost see it with an old KC-135 or something, but not THAT plane.

[Monster Dave]

Yea, but do you really think they would do that with a VC-25 of all things?  I could almost see it with an old KC-135 or something, but not THAT plane.

Most people wouldn't have taken the time to look at the plane in detail. All they would have seen was an airliner with an F-16 in tow.

We've all be conditioned to associate a scene like that with something bad.

[Grampa]

Most people wouldn't have taken the time to look at the plane in detail. All they would have seen was an airliner with an F-16 in tow.

We've all be conditioned to associate a scene like that with something bad.

which is why they knew what they were doing

[cyrus buelton]

So what was the point of this "photo shoot?"


Boeing making new marketing material to sell more Air Force 1's?