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While hovering helicopters for TV shows alarm Bay Area residents, think about folks in downtown Manhattan who spotted a low-flying plane being tailed by fighter jets. Some buildings were evacuated while others told employees they were staying put—and then the FAA explained "the Defense Department is conducting a photo op that involves deploying two F-16s and escorting a Boeing 747 in the vicinity of Lower Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty... the maneuver was not an emergency and was coordinated in advance with the FAA and state and local officials." (The Boening 747 was one of the planes that the President uses, but President Obama was not on board.) Of course, the warning from NYC government came right at the same time as the maneuver, not in advance, because the feds apparently didn't want the flight to be disclosed. So, this is clearly a Department of Defense FAIL, right? Update: NYC Mayor Bloomberg is "furious" (apparently he didn't know about the flyover!) and now t he White House has apologized.
Feds' Photo Op With Low-Flying Jets Scares NYers
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OMFG, what a horrible idea!!!
prepare for propaganda
Obamafail.
Would it have been that difficult to notify TV and radio stations a week in advance to get the word out? Obama may be in a pre 9/11 world but New Yorkers are not.
It's getting so you can't go swimming in the Hudson without getting buzzed by some damn plane.
I hate to say this, but this is a worse idea than Bush's "Mission Accomplished" photo-op - Bush may have looked a bit more stupid in his photo, but at least he didn't cause a huge amount of panic while doing it.
That had FAIL written all over it from several different levels. The morons that didn't bother to tell the public about it before-hand, mainly, though. Stupid idiot law enforcement and FAA fucks. Even the Mayor of the city didn't know. Haha!
It would have been a hell of a lot cheaper, easier and SAFER to just Photoshop the images together. Why did they actually have to shoot it on location??? DUMB.