US Capitol Evacuated Over Unauthorized Aircraft in Airspace

[bluevoter4life]

Source: Huffington Post

The U.S. Capitol Police ordered a evacuation of the Capitol building and other government offices minutes ago when an unauthorized aircraft entered the protected DC airspace.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/01/us-capitol-evacuated-aircraft_n_803209.html

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Just breaking. Will try to update as information becomes available

[MineralMan]

1. Updated:

Update: NBC News reports that the plane that prompted US Capitol evacuation was a Piedmont Airlines Flight that was out of radio contact briefly, plane has now landed.

[MineralMan]

2. False alarm, as usual.

[elleng]

3. fortunately

[MineralMan]

4. Yes. At least it demonstrates that we're keeping an eye on

that airspace. That's a good thing.

Good old Piedmont Airlines. You can always count on them, eh? :rofl:

[SoapBox]

5. Ditto...Just a kiss of fear to start off 2011, by scaring the lemmings.

Oh boy! Just wait until we get closer to 911, 911, 911!!!!!

The RushThugs and T.HaterBaggers will NOT shut up about it, as
we get closer to the 10 year anniversary.

[awoke_in_2003]

11. I dread it already....

the 10th anniversary- it will be an orgy of fear and terra from the media and politicians. Damn, I hope I don't work that day.

[MilesColtrane]

15. Yeah, what are they thinking?

Somebody crashing a plane into the White House?

It could never happen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Eugene_Corder

:eyes:

[sofa king]

17. Heh. Piedmont.

Once, when I was a little kid, I won a goldfish at a birthday party, and brought it home with me that day as an unattended child on a Piedmont flight. The pilot invited me and the goldfish in its mason jar up to the cockpit to take a look around. Try that these days.

[HopeHoops]

6. It was just some old guy on a nuke bomb waving a cowboy hat.

That happens.

[BlueJazz]

8. ..or these Guys..

:) :) :)

[freshwest]

9. I'm always expecting that to happen.

[awoke_in_2003]

12. "Hurry up Mandrake...

the redcoats are coming" :)

[Frank Cannon]

7. Hell, these guys track Santa Claus all night long every Christmas Eve.

I wouldn't think a little thing like this would take them by surprise.

[Vattel]

10. we got booted out of the botanical gardens

I just wanted to see the train.

[Pale Blue Dot]

13. False alarm: See update below.

An airliner lost radio contact when a pilot inadvertently turned his radio to the wrong frequency, leading to the scrambling of fighter jets and the evacuation of the U.S. Capitol, federal officials said Saturday.

Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jim Peters said the agency is reviewing the "pilot readback error." The loss of radio contact as the plane approached the nation's capital also led officials to evacuate all House and Senate office buildings.

Piedmont Airlines flight 4352 from Hilton Head, S.C., was on course for Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport when it lost radio contact with air traffic controllers at a regional radar facility in Virginia for about 15 minutes, FAA officials said.

F-16 fighter jets were scrambled from Andrews Air Force Base, but the airliner was able to re-establish radio contact and it landed at Reagan, said Stacey Knott, a spokeswoman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/01/us-capitol-evacuated-aircraft_n_803209.html

[watstearns]

14. Petition for Federal Election Reform

Here is a petition to reform elections, so that Congress will
obey the people not corporations:
http://www.petitiononline.com/PoliTru3/petition.html
If we act together now, we can still save our country.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

16. Gosh, they actually scrambled some fighter jets this time?

[Parche]

18. yeah, sounds like the air force did their job

so what happened on 9/11?? :sarcasm:

[PacerLJ35]

19. The Air Force did in fact scramble fighters on 9/11.

Yet another one of the "9/11 was an inside job" myths.

[Parche]

22. i know they did

but they lagged big time
i was in the air force and something was rotten that day

yes i do believe that day was rigged somehow
those 3 buildings could not have fallen like they did
and the air force was slow in their response

[PacerLJ35]

23. Just because you were in the AF doesn't mean you understand flying ops

Trust me, I'm in the USAF and 90% of the airmen I'm around every day have no idea what goes on in an airplane...even the guys maintaining the airplanes.

[Parche]

25. maybe, or maybe not

i have also been in the airline industry for a long time
and i know high ups at the FAA


no one can explain the very odd things that happened that day

[PacerLJ35]

27. Phooey....

You've been in the airline industry...so that now means you know the ins and outs of flying operations in the Air Force? And higher ups in the FAA? Hey, for what it's worth, so do I. Not only do I know a bunch of people that are directors and branch chiefs within the FAA, I'm also a military pilot and know hundreds of other military pilots. So spare me.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

20. I wonder too?

what was the explanation?

[panzerfaust]

21. Land of the Free, Home of the Brave?

Both are less and less true.

Lost com happens all the time. Only odd thing (besides the TERROR ATTACK!!! FLEE!!!! evolution) is that, when no joy on new freq, crew did not simply follow SOP and return to the previous before causing a TERROR alert. Perhaps they were discussing their retirement plans?

TERROR ALERT!! Scramble the fighters: Got to keep the FEAR alive.

Disgusting. Sad.

[lonestarnot]

24. Reminds me of old run for your life, take off your shoes and put holes in your socks, shit your

pants, but keep running to find out you're an asshole.

[defendandprotect]

26. Interesting ....

but never happened on 9/11 ....