Fighter jets were forced to intercept a wayward plane over Suffolk County Monday night after the small aircraft pierced a temporary no-fly zone, according to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
The plane was escorted to MacArthur Airport by two F-15 jets around 7 p.m. and landed without incident, according to a NORAD statement.
The no-fly zone over the island was in effect because President Obama was campaigning in Connecticut Monday.
Officials have not released the identity of the pilot who was flying alone on a home-built Kitfox, the Daily News reported.
A second aircraft also flying in a restricted area in New Haven, Conn., was intercepted by the fighter jets around 7:30 p.m. That plane was allowed to continue to its final destination, NORAD said.
Many local residents said they saw the jets soar over their homes.
"I watched it fly over my house several times," Dan Olawski of Lake Ronkonkoma wrote on Facebook. "Was a little nerve-wracking."
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Majortom 1981: How did Reagan do it? How did Clinton do it? By showing leadership in bipartisan cooperation with Congress. Why did he bother to create a Jobs Council if he cannot in any way create jobs? Maybe thats why he hasn't bothered to meet with them at all this year?
Over 50,000 Americans were killed in Vietnam. Def Sec McNamara has publicly admitted that the government lied about the Gulf of Tonkin incident which lead to widespread involvement of ground troops in Vietnam. Our government has never participated in a false flag operation?
There was little to no debris photgraphed at the pentagon. There was a 16 foot hole in the pentagon. A 757 has over a 50 foot wingspan and 22 foot high tail. All video surveillance was confiscated of what hit the pentagon North and South tower collapsed at free fall speeds. Building 7 fell and was not hit by anything. Steel melts at a much higher temperature than jet fuel burning. In fact the actual fires were out shortly after the crash - you only see smoldering not fire when the towers go down. No steel structural building in the History of our country has ever collapsed due to fire Again, these are totally unanswered questions. I am not conspiracy nut. But we found ourselves completely lied to and involved in two unwinable wars. I am not the president and can't comment on making such a decision of loosing a plane of about 200 passengers vs. the lives of others in the towers or so forth. I imagine it would be a hard position. But we will never know because
FF George C. Cain Ladder 7, FDNY Never Forget September 11th
There is plenty of literature out there by accredited engineers. plenty of documented first hand accounts, plenty of evidence to support the administration had warning. Plenty of unanswered questions etc. I don't see a lot of facts backing up the "official" version. The 911 commission was pretty much a sham. You may believe what ever is fed to you. I do not. And again, I am simply pointing out there is a lot of unanswered questions. And a lot of bad things have happened since - several wars, debt from those wars, tremendous erosion of our freedoms, our whole lifestyles have changed tom a degree. - Hey do you remember during Bush's 2004 election, the terror alert going up and down to deliberate scare the heck out of every one? Think what you may but learn how to have a respectful, intelligent conversation and not resort to name calling and character assassination. And how dare you call me insensitive on the grounds of respecting the victims or anyone else. Quite disgusting. Sounds like Bill Oreilly tactics. Watch him much? I think I am finished with you.
9/11 was an event that changed how this entire government and country operates. It is extremely important to at least give it a look. If you are too emotional and sensitive to discuss it even 11 years after the fact, then that is on you. You would have to be a lobotomized vegetable to fully believe the governments official story.
Bush was wonderful, I get it... Although he did miss that very important memo a month before............
http://www.newamericancentury.org/ Spend some time checking this site out, they are so brazen they only took it down for a short time in the early 2000s http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf Read section V and then poo poo Chris K
There's plenty out there to argue FDR knew Pearl Harbor was about to occur and he turned a blind eye to preventing the Japanese to allow the US to enter the WWII. We were already committed with funds and equipment to England and there was no doubt England was hanging on a thread. And again, I'll bring up Vietnam, the US govt fully lied about the Gulf of Tonkin. The Iraq war was predicated in lies. We are in Afghanistan YEAR later with no reason for being there at this point.
Neither did Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld......