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More from WorldAll restrictions were in place<\/p>\nUS officials on Sunday said that at least three general aviation aircraft violated the temporary flight restrictions near Bedminster, New Jersey, as the country’s President Donald Trump spent the weekend at his golf club. <\/p>\n
US officials on Sunday said that at least three general aviation aircraft violated the temporary flight restrictions near Bedminster, New Jersey, as the country’s President Donald Trump spent the weekend at his golf club. The North American Aerospace Defence Command (Norad) said its F-16 fighter jets intercepted two general aviation aircraft.<\/p>\n
Soon after the first update, it confirmed that a third plane also triggered an alert while Trump was preparing to depart the area, where the four-day LIV Golf New York tournament was being held, Fox News reported. As per the sources, the third incident appeared to delay the American leader’s departure by about 13 minutes.<\/p>\n
Amid the chaos, emergency SUVs, law enforcement officers and US Secret Service agents were seen moving into position near the runway where Trump was scheduled to depart around 5 pm ET. Following the incident, officials noted that the first two general aviation aircraft were safely escorted out of the restricted area by NORAD aircraft.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the aircraft “reestablished communications and became compliant before Norad intervention was required.” Videos now circulating online captured the interceptions of the first two aircraft. It shows the dramatic moment an F-16 fighter jet closed in on what appeared to be a small Cessna aircraft near Jefferson Township, outside Bedminster.<\/p>\n
More from WorldAll restrictions were in place<\/p>\n
It is pertinent to note that, ahead of Trump’s landing in New Jersey, NORAD said it would enforce multiple FAA-established temporary flight restrictions over the region this weekend. Both pilots and the public were told that the US Army ground-based defence assets may be present in the area, operating under the Continental US Norad Region as part of the command\u2019s routine, layered defence.<\/p>\n
“These systems are operating under Norad authorities, constitute a routine component of the command\u2019s layered defence posture and work in tandem with the command\u2019s airborne assets to monitor and protect the airspace,” information published by the Defence Visual Information Distribution Service said.<\/p>\n
After the incident, the officials reminded general aviation pilots to check Notices to Airmen (Notams) before every flight for the latest information on airspace restrictions and other flight procedures, as required by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). “Check NOTAMs before EVERY flight!” 1st AF\/AFNORTH said in a post on X.<\/p>\n
It is pertinent to note that if ever a pilot is intercepted by Norad aircraft, they should immediately adjust their radio frequency to 121.5 or 243.0, according to information published by the Defence Visual Information Distribution Service. They should then “turn around to reverse course until receiving additional instructions on one of those frequencies.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US officials on Sunday said that at least three general aviation aircraft violated the temporary flight restrictions near…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[12,83534,1332,6929,5111,10,11,5113,83535,17,1109],"class_list":["post-185198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-donald-trump","tag-donald-trump","tag-f16-intercept","tag-military","tag-new-jersey","tag-newsfeed","tag-potus","tag-president-of-the-united-states","tag-show-types","tag-trump-golf-club","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/117076722072210363","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}