DC evacuation du jour

"George Patterson" wrote in message
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Wed Jun 29, 8:38 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A private plane strayed into restricted
airspace...snip...

....snip...

However, aviation officials said the restricted flight zone around the
capital region is violated frequently, almost always inadvertently by
private pilots.



.... *almost* always...???

almost always inadvertently by
private pilots.
... *almost* always...???

One of the cases that came closest to a shoot-down was carrying a public
official on official business. I believe this was a commercial pilot.
Of course, he didn't "stray" into restricted airspace, he was supposed
to be there, and "something went wrong".

Jose
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"Jose" wrote in message
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almost always inadvertently by
private pilots.
... *almost* always...???

One of the cases that came closest to a shoot-down was carrying a public
official on official business. I believe this was a commercial pilot.
Of course, he didn't "stray" into restricted airspace, he was supposed
to be there, and "something went wrong".

What went wrong is two government agencies failed to communicate with each
other despite the fact procedures to do so had been put into place. .

Of course, he didn't "stray" into restricted airspace, he was supposed
to be there, and "something went wrong".

What went wrong is two government agencies failed to communicate with each
other despite the fact procedures to do so had been put into place.

Indeed. But what went wrong wasn't relevant to my point, which was that
when "bad things happen" in the DC ADIZ, it's not always because some
pilot "strayed".

Jose
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Jose wrote:
almost always inadvertently by private pilots.

... *almost* always...???


One of the cases that came closest to a shoot-down was carrying a public
official on official business. I believe this was a commercial pilot.
Of course, he didn't "stray" into restricted airspace, he was supposed
to be there, and "something went wrong".

Jose

A chartered flight taking the gov of Kentucky to Reagan's funeral.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...-2004Jul7.html