Wednesday, December 26, 2018

President Trump's Trip To Iraq Could Not Be Kept As A Secret


NBC: Trump's first trip to a combat zone was secret — except on Twitter

Plane buffs monitored Air Force One's flight path, tweeting out the plane's location in real time as it made its way to Iraq.

President Donald Trump's unannounced visit to Iraq was no surprise to airplane buffs.

While the trip was shrouded in secrecy for security reasons, an airplane aficionado spotted the distinctive blue and white Boeing jet flying over England, and posted pictures of it on his Flickr account Wednesday morning.

When the president is on board, the VC-25A plane — a military version of the 747 — uses the call sign Air Force One. The plane spotted over England, however, was using the call sign RCH358.

Online detectives figured out the plane's disguised call numbers, and tracked its movements — even sharing them on Twitter.

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Update: How Trump gave away his secret war zone trip (Politico)

WNU Editor: It is shocking that Air Force One's flight path was tracked this easily.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nothing shocking about it. It's a big plane. It doesn't have stealth. Everyone is watching it. Just the realities of living in a physical world ;)

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Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

Yeah, how so? Tell me about those cool stealth capabilities, or how people don't watch that plane 24/7. It's probably the most watched plane on planet earth.. but I'm totally wrong about that too, right other anon?