This pilot may be in a little bit of trouble. A single-engine aircraft, which had originally taken off Saturday from Middletown, NY was intercepted by a military jet fighter the following day near the Pennsylvania-Deleware border. Now, this was certainly not what this pilot expected to see that Sunday afternoon when they took off. What was going on? It appears the pilot may not have realized the President was in town for the weekend and had flown into a area they shouldn t have.
MSN says that President Biden happened to be visiting his home outside Wilmington, DE that particular day, and the small aircraft had violated Presidential airspace. A U.S. Secret Service spokeswoman said the flight entered restricted airspace after 1 PM Sunday. A NORAD fighter then intercepted the plane per protocol and fired flares to steer the pilot out of the restricted area. CNN says the pilot had not been in contact with air traffic controllers Sunday. FlightAware shows that the craft took off from�
This pilot may be in a little bit of trouble. A single-engine aircraft, which had originally taken off Saturday from Middletown, NY was intercepted by a military jet fighter the following day near the Pennsylvania-Deleware border. Now, this was certainly not what this pilot expected to see that Sunday afternoon when they took off. What was going on? It appears the pilot may not have realized the President was in town for the weekend and had flown into a area they shouldn t have.
MSN says that President Biden happened to be visiting his home outside Wilmington, DE that particular day, and the small aircraft had violated Presidential airspace. A U.S. Secret Service spokeswoman said the flight entered restricted airspace after 1 PM Sunday. A NORAD fighter then intercepted the plane per protocol and fired flares to steer the pilot out of the restricted area. CNN says the pilot had not been in contact with air traffic controllers Sunday. FlightAware shows that the craft took off from�
Fighter jet intercepts small aircraft that violated Presidential Airspace over Delaware
NORAD
A North American Aerospace Defense Command fighter jet intercepted a small aircraft that had violated Presidential airspace over Wilmington, Delaware, on Sunday, according to a statement from NORAD, which is responsible for protecting the skies over the US and Canada.
The fighter jet dispensed signal flares to alert the pilot and direct the aircraft, which was not in communication with air traffic controllers, out of the restricted zone, the statement said.
The aircraft, identified on the ground as a single-engine, four-seat Grumman American based in New York, landed at New Garden Airport just north of the Delaware state line shortly after 1 p.m. ET.