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Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Snapshots from Home
This is Getting Ridiculous

For the third time in a matter of months, I stood on my ‘thesdan deck late yesterday afternoon and wondered why military planes were screeching way way fast back and forth over my head.

And for the third time, the reason’s the same:



WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. fighter jets scrambled on Monday to intercept a small plane that had breached restricted airspace around Washington, D.C., a spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command said

The Cessna 182 was flying from Philadelphia to Charlottesville, Virginia, before the F-16 fighters guided it to an airport in Maryland, said Sean Kelly, the spokesman for NORAD, which monitors North American airspace.
Posted at: 6/06/2006 05:34:00 AM