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General Category => Military/Defense News => Topic started by: rangerrebew on April 11, 2017, 01:16:00 pm

Title: Plane came 'within about 1,000' feet of Air Force One: report
Post by: rangerrebew on April 11, 2017, 01:16:00 pm

Plane came 'within about 1,000' feet of Air Force One: report
By Ellen Mitchell - 04/10/17 01:02 PM EDT

A U.S. military plane appeared to come startlingly close to Air Force One late Sunday, just minutes before the aircraft carrying President Trump landed outside of Washington, D.C., Voice of America reported.

Reporters traveling with the president spotted a Boeing C-17 Globemaster — a gray, four-engine military transport aircraft — through their windows at 6:23 p.m. as Air Force One was descending toward its home base at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/328119-plane-came-within-about-1000-feet-of-air-force-one-report

Title: Re: Plane came 'within about 1,000' feet of Air Force One: report
Post by: geronl on April 11, 2017, 05:41:33 pm

The C-17 probably carries the armored limo