they painted a giant "x" on to it to show it was closed. not incidentally, the closed runway was also covered with a whole bunch of construction equipment and dozens of living, breathing, human construction workers of the undeterred, senator inhofe decided to land his private plane on the closed runway anyway. you may remember the smoking gun website got ahold of the faa documents about what senator inhofe did that day, as well as some of the witness audio. >> scared the crap out of us on the north end, then he started to land on the other side of us, and there were a couple of trucks there. he damn near hit us. landed on the runway anyway. >> did you get a call sign of the aircraft? >> yes, sir, i have it. i got the pilot's name is james inhofe. he's standing right in the middle of us. i have a list of witnesses.