FoxNews: Plane has landed. Pilot in custody of MD State Police. FEDs en route to airport. [hehehe]
This pilot/guy will need a change of clothes, for sure.
Some half witted liberal politicians overreacting to threat of using the nuclear option???????????
Senate back in session on CSPAN2.
[Underwear changed.]
CSPAN: Police say the plane was not authorized to have been taken.
Question from Gallery: Pecking order for who would be saved...[wanted to know where the press fell in that]
lol....
[Press corps would be somewhere after the custodial staff, grounds keepers, doggie poop scoopers.]
Contrary to popular reports, the pilot was NOT wearing "Old Crusty".
I was walking from my office on Conn. Ave. to Adams Morgan for lunch when all hell broke loose with F-16s screaming overhead. Scared the crap out of me. How anyone living or working here in DC can forget about what happened on 9/11 is a mystery to me.
Not one but 2 people in the airplane failed to understand where they were.
They returned to the restricted air space once flushed out?
It became serious enough to fire warning shots..
This doesnt sound like the routine lost pilot story to me.
Im getting some tin foil on the way home.
I think I read in El Mundo that a small airplane violated the 18 security miles over Washington.
http://www.ksla.com/global/story.asp?s=3330355&ClientType=Printable
U.S. Senator Landrieu Blasts Capitol Evacuation Plan
U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu, (D) Louisiana, blasted evacuation procedures in place at the U.S. Capitol complex following Wednesday morning's evacuation there. "There's still a lot of confusion about where to evacuate and exactly what's going on," Senator Landrieu told KSLA NEWS 12. "It's disconcerting that we often get more information from relatives who are watching CNN and calling us than we do from personnel here," the Senator said. "We're supposed to have a meeting point but that place was arbitrarily changed this morning."
Landrieu said she had just left the Senate floor and was having lunch with constituents inside the Dirksen building (part of the capitol complex) when they were ordered to leave. "Some people were told to run for their lives," Landrieu said. "We still have a lot of work to do when it comes to the evacuation of this capitol complex." "There's a lot to be desired," the Senator said.
Both the U.S. Capitol and White House were briefly evacuated after a small plane entered restricted airspace over the city. Officials later said a small Cessna aircraft breached the security zone over Washington. The plane was reportedly approached by a fighter aircraft and veered away. The evacuation order was then lifted.
U.S. Congressman Jim McCrery, (R) Louisiana, said he did not have any problems with the way the situation was handled. McCrery said he was having lunch inside the Capitol when he and others were ordered to evacuate. "The Capitol police did a good job of telling us to get out and directing us once we got outside," McCrery said.
The Congressman discounted Senator Landrieu's account of the situation being unorganized. "There was a plane just miles from the capitol complex," McCrery said. "They didn't have time to stop and explain what the basis of the emergency was." "They wanted to get us to safety." "We can find out what the problem is later," McCrery said. McCrery said he and others "ran for about two blocks and then we started walking." "I don't know how you make a situation like that look less chaotic." "The police have been told there is a plane approaching and you've got to get everyone out quickly," McCrery said.
Thank god Dubya was in Maryland...
I heard Chris Shays is still hiding under his desk. Can anyone confirm. (remembering how Shays said he wouldn't come to Washington during one of the elevated alerts).