Business Insider: Here's what it looks like when a US fighter jet intercepts a plane violating restricted airspace
It's sort of a private pilot's worst nightmare, seeing a US Air Force fighter jet fly alongside your aircraft.
Whoops, that's because you've flown into restricted airspace.
And just like the airspace above Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, the location of Super Bowl 50 this Sunday, a US Air Force F-15 Eagle will intercept all unapproved aircraft.
A Civil Air Patrol (CAP) Cessna 182 will assist the F-15.
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WNU Editor: I will not be surprised if these planes will be armed during this Sunday's Super Bowl.
2 comments:
I believe the best overflight for Super Bowl 50 would a 7 ship flight of Apache gun ships.
(and the F-15s)
I was at a Bush Reelection Rally when some old guy piloting a small plane didn't get the message about the restricted airspace over the stadium. He was buzzed several times at close range and just over our heads by a fighter jet. It was very tense in the crowd for a minute. Seems the old guy was on his way to a Hemingway lookalike contest in Key West.
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