Posted on 09/27/2016 3:35:26 PM PDT by iowamark
OTTUMWA-Less than 24 hours ago many southeast Iowa residents were excited to learn that Presidential candidate Donald Trump would be making another visit to Ottumwa. Unfortunately, what was sure to be an event attended by hundreds or perhaps thousands, has instead been cancelled.
The event was schedule to take place Wednesday, September 28th at 2:30PM at the Ottumwa Regional Airport. The Post has received information that the Trump campaign has been forced to cancel the planned event due to the logistics of landing the plane.
Trump has visited Ottumwa before in January 2016 and landed at the Ottumwa Regional Airport at that time.
In a phone call to Arch Angel Flying Service, the FBO of the airport, we were able to get an explanation as to why the landing was impossible. An employee explained that on this visit Trump was going to be arriving on his larger sized jet that is fully-loaded. At this point in the election he is travelling with a larger entourage of people including many members of the media, which calls for a larger jet for travel. His previous visit involved a smaller jet that was capable of landing at the airport.
“Going to Council Bluffs instead. 2:30pm Wednesday.”
It would be a bit less deceptive if this were also in the headline.
Trump needs a separate plane for the media—destination North Korea!
The commie bastards are screwing with flight schedules now?
I don’t believe in changing headlines. The old FR rule was correct.
Radar is pissed!
Yet in the very next sentence the explanation is learned that his large entourage requires a larger plane that the airport cannot handle.
Where do you even get that information? I do not see it in the article.
http://www.omaha.com/news/politics/donald-trump-plans-wednesday-event-in-council-bluffs/article_48d13344-84e3-11e6-a1d9-3f2509a681c7.html
“Donald Trump plans Wednesday event in Council Bluffs”
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/schedule/register/council-bluffs-ia3/
“Mid America Center Convention Center
1 America Way
Council Bluffs, IA 51501
Wednesday, September 28, 2016 at 3:00 PM (CST)”
Lastly the posting requirements stipulate that you must use the original title so that the board will not be riddled with repeat posts of the same article to conserve bandwidth.
Ottumwa, Iowa. Home of the famous Radar O’Reilly
Just across the river from Omaha, Nebraska.
I believe they meant the Ottumwa Poet’s headline.
Post’s^ :)
deceptive? less?
got ya to click, huh? :-)
Belated Welcome to FR!!
He needs to go to Cedar Rapids soon, not this week but soon. Thousands of volunteers pitched in and filled sandbags and built 10 miles of temporary flood barriers and saved their city from another devastating flood. That’s a very Trump-like thing to do and deserves recognition.
How long is the runway?
Is this such a tiny two-bit airport they cannot accommodate a normal passenger jet? And no one vetted the issue until the day before?
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