Spirit Airlines Plane Gets Too Close To Air Force One: "Pay Attention!"

It's interesting how AF1 kept telling the Spirit plane to get further away. Was Eric Trump on that Spirit flight?

Deportation One! ...if only

Nah, they probably weren't paying attention because both pilots were trans or whatnot?

As an airline pilot myself who operates out of this airspace on a weekly basis, these controllers are great, humorous at times, but definitely on crack haha. I have almost no doubt he gave the spirit pilots zero time to respond between the transmissions lol

I did not find anywhere in the article that AF1 was communicating with the Spirit airlines pilot. Did you hear that in the recording?

These actions would have been taken by ATC regardless of who is President.

Also, there is a possibility that fighter jets could have been escorting AF1, but no mention of any contact from fighter pilots of a warning.

Since 9/11, security protocols for AF1 have most likely been reviewed and updated in response to planes being used as weapons, including exploding a plane near AF1 in hopes of shrapnel getting in the engines of AF1. Defensive responses by the fighter jets or AF1 to a plane coming within range of AF1, could be catastrophic for the plane and those on board.

AF 1 wasn’t telling Spirit anything. That was the controller.

I think fighter jet escort is fairly rare even after 9/11.

Should have scrambled the F22.

Every administration seems to like to waste tax payers money on defense, or was it war?

Cuntforce one!

Yes, as a pilot you need to respond to ATC instructions promptly but, this controller was Mr. Impatient and does he know the priorities of being a PIC; 1) Aviate 2) Navigate 3) Communicate

We’ve seen far too many stories about NYC area controllers who have the courtesy of an executioner. Yes, we get it you have a high pressure job and need flight crews to carry out instructions promptly. But, for love of it CHILL YOUR A$$S OFF AND STOP WITH INSULTS.

This ATC has an accent that is found only in people with two-digit IQs.

I don't find it funny at all. It's puerile and low class. It deserves condemnation. We should use our crack laws to prosecute the ATC to the fullest extent of the law which would mean imprisonment for possession of a controlled substance.

Eight miles of separation, when each aircraft is traveling at about eight miles a minute, is not a lot of separation.

Low class guys who use that word obviously aren't getting any..

They told 4 times Spirit to turn 20 degrees right in the space of just 11 seconds... I don't blame Spirit here, TBH.