Report: More than 3,400 airspace violations since 9/11

On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 20:25:44 -0400, Bob Noel
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In article ,
Larry Dighera wrote:

Hey, I'm just quoting Governor Fletcher:

ok.


http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...printable.html
As AVweb told you two weeks ago, a civilian
contractor failed to notice the manual tracking tags attached to
the radar image of Fletcher's transponder-less airplane and that
triggered the evacuation of the Capitol building and the
scrambling of F-16s. According to the Post, an F-16 was looking
for the King Air but the pilot couldn't visually identify it
because of cloud cover. Moments later, the plane began a normal
approach to DCA and the military called off the attack. Fletcher
told the Lexington Herald that he was originally told he was
"milliseconds" from being shot down.

Can you cite a reference for your refutation of his words?

Actually, look at your reference. Do you see anywhere in it that the
F-16's were actually authorized to shootdown the aircraft?



Absent such
an authorization, there is no way that Fletcher could have been
milliseconds from being shot down. (Never mind that even if such
a shoot down order was given - which wasn't, the F-16's still would
have had to acquire the target.)

Also, Fletcher was "originally told ..." by who? Was that person in
the room where the weapons and surveillance operators were? Or was
that person on the conference call? Did that person see or hear
any authorization to shoot? Lacking that, there isn't anything to refute.



In any event, the pilot wasn't at fault for this ADIZ violation, but
under Mica's proposed bill, only pilots will be fined $100,000.00 for
DC ADIZ violations. That is unjust.

Agreed.