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Grumman Tiger Intercepted By F-16s with Flares Inside Presidential TFR
New Garden Airport Photo: Jon Martin
F-16s intercepted a Grumman Tiger that violated last weekend’s Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) involving President Biden’s visit to his home in Wilmington, Delaware. According to a Secret Service statement, “On May 16, at approximately 1:09 p.m., a small aircraft violated the restricted airspace in Wilmington, DE. Per standard protocol, U.S. military aircraft responded, the aircraft was intercepted, and the pilot redirected to a local airport.”
The Grumman pilot told Jon Martin, director of aviation at New Garden Airport in Pennsylvania where he landed, that he and his wife were returning home to an unspecified New York airport from Ocean City, Maryland, and were unaware of the TFR. Martin said both were “shaken up,” adding, “not only were they intercepted by F-16s, but they thought they were being shot at [by the flares].”
Cmdr. Donald Wayne Richmond, USNR Ret., 89, Mason Dixon Road, Gettysburg, passed away at his home on Tuesday, May 4, 2021.
He was born July 15, 1931, in Armstrong, Iowa, the son of the late Wayne and Bernice Pruell Richmond. Donald is survived by his wife Marilyn Thompson-Richmond; a son, Timothy W. Richmond of Gettysburg; a daughter-in-law, Jodi Richmond of Littlestown; two grandchildren, Heather Hamilton and Scott Richmond; two sisters, Barbara Tolsdorf of Lebanon, Missouri, and Dolores Schnittjer of Nashville, Tenn.; and several nieces and a nephew. He was predeceased by his first wife, Joyce Rossiter Richmond; and a son, Terry S. Richmond.
As an Iowa farm boy, working in the fields, he would look up at the airplanes flying overhead, often wondering where they were going and how wonderful it must be. At the same time in World War II, his uncle was flying in B-17s in the Pacific, which increased his motivation to be one of them. His 15th birthday gift from his parents was a ride
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Plane crash survivors Rico Eusebi and Julie Hanson.
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Four people escaping from the wreckage of a burning aircraft is a waking nightmare usually reserved for a Hollywood movie set.
But this was a real-life drama worthy of its own Tinseltown script which happened 40 years ago when a plane from Dundee went down in the wilds of Perthshire.
Ronnie Harris, Rico Eusebi, Julie Hanson and Allan Foley disappeared during a flight from Dundee Airport to Prestwick on February 26 1981.
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