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Jets Intercept Plane Near White House
By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent
WASHINGTON -
Air Force fighter jets scrambled Monday to intercept a private plane
that flew too close to the White House, triggering a security scare
that led Vice President ***** Cheney and President Bush's chief of
staff to be moved to a secure location.

Jets Intercept Plane Near White House

By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent

WASHINGTON -

Air Force fighter jets scrambled Monday to intercept a private plane
that flew too close to the White House, triggering a security scare
that led Vice President ***** Cheney and President Bush's chief of
staff to be moved to a secure location.

The plane was later determined not to be a threat.

The president was away at the time, on a trip to Arkansas and South
Carolina, and his wife, Laura, had a speaking engagement in Maine.

Cheney and White House chief of staff Andrew Card were moved
temporarily as a precautionary measure, said presidential spokesman
Scott McClellan.

They resumed their normal routines soon thereafter, said McClellan,
who was with Bush in Little Rock, Ark.

The privately owned plane was detected flying down the Potomac River
toward Washington when it entered restricted airspace, said Secret
Service spokeswoman Jean Mitchell.

The fighters were scrambled from nearby Andrews Air Force in Maryland
and they intercepted the plane, escorting it out of the area, she
said.

"He was within eight miles" of the White House, she said. "It's enough
to affect our emergency response plan." Armed officers took up
positions on the White House lawn during the incident.

The Air Force jets peeled off when the plane left restricted airspace
but it was tracked on radar until it landed in Siler City, N.C., for
refueling, said Dan Dluzneski, another Secret Service spokesman.

The pilot allowed authorities to search the plane, and told Secret
Service officers that he had been unable to contact the fighter jets.

"As far as the Secret Service is concerned, it's closed," said
Dluzneski.

He said the pilot had purchased the plane and had it serviced in
Pennsylvania over the weekend and was flying it to Florida.

"He thought he was abiding by the flight restrictions. Obviously he
was not," Dluzneski said. He declined to identify the pilot.

Maj. Douglas Martin, spokesman for the North American Aerospace
Defense Command, or NORAD, said it had been determined the plane was
not a threat.

"From the NORAD perspective, he's not a threat, and that's the main
thing for us," Martin said.

The plane apparently strayed within the Air Defense Identification
Zone, roughly a 23-mile radius around Washington, according to Les
Dorr, spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration.

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Where was Andrews Air Force Base-NORAD before the plane hit the
Pentagon?

Harry

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Where was Andrews Air Force Base-NORAD before the plane hit the
Pentagon?