It seems as though someone REALLY REALLY goofed up during a small trip.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/11/evacuation/index.html
EDIT:
Am watching CNN @ work & they say that if the plane had started to decend any quicker it would've been shot down..or if it didn't land at all for that matter. I saw that a fighter jet fire four warning flares @/near the cessna too
Yea I was watching this on CNN in my geometry class before taking the test.
I wonder what is gonna happen with those two guys
That's crazy. They'll get a warning, probably, as it was an accident.
They'll be scolded. They'll have to face some serious music from the FAA though, thats a seriuos accident and a serious violation.
Quote from: Hazard on May 11, 2005, 05:01 PM
They'll be scolded. They'll have to face some serious music from the FAA though, thats a seriuos accident and a serious violation.
You'd figure someone would have red-flagged their flight plan.
I'm thinking they didn't have one correctly filled out? They weren't answering communications so maybe they just sorta flew away?
Quote from: MyndFyre on May 11, 2005, 05:18 PM
Quote from: Hazard on May 11, 2005, 05:01 PM
They'll be scolded. They'll have to face some serious music from the FAA though, thats a seriuos accident and a serious violation.
You'd figure someone would have red-flagged their flight plan.
IIRC, their flight plan was good but they were navigating by eye and got lost. It just so happened they ended up near the whitehouse.
My question is why didn't they respond to communication attempts? That I think is what got them into the most trouble.
Any day an F-16 shoots flares at you just to get you're attention and you evacuate the Pentagon, White House, and Supreme Court buildings all by accident, you're going to feel pretty damn stupid.