Washington / New York (AP) - Of all the aircraft of U.S. President Barack Obama has raised in New York fear of a new terrorist attack, the White s house looked after the confusing low-level flight of the "Air Force One" on Manhattan on Monday forced to apologize officially.
Although the authorities were informed He claimed, for the purpose of the flight photos of the Pentagon "confusion and concern," it said in the opinion of the military director of the White House, Louis Caldera. He regretted the anxiety that the flight of blue-white painted President had fired machine, said Caldera.
was on Monday morning around 10:00 clock time, the converted long-range version of Boeing 747-200B, accompanied by two F-16 fighter jets flew low over New York. In the city, on 11 September 2001 terrorists hijacked airliners flying into the skyscrapers of the World Trade Center killed nearly 3,000 people had was, fear of another terrorist attack broke out, told the U.S. television channel. Many citizens had called the emergency numbers of the city. Several buildings in Manhattan, the reports left by several hundred people fled their offices. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg had been outraged that they have been misled about the spectacular flight information in time.
"I saw the big plane flying very low ... and thought, for God's sake, Now comes another "9 / 11," said the sales manager Kate Geraghty, who works in Jersey City, on the other bank of the Hudson River opposite Manhattan. With "9 / 11 (" September 11 ") refer to the Americans, the terrorist attacks of 2001. "All the screaming and ran down the stairs, no one knew why, we just did, there's a plane, now returns a" 9 / 11, "says Daisy Cooper, an employee of a brokerage firm, an NBC-TV Reporter.
at the share prices on Wall Street were to the appearance of the aircraft fallen short, the Economic Agency of Bloomberg. Obviously is the New York police were not informed about the flight of the president's airplane, it said. She said they fly over the Statue of Liberty, "said Paul Brown of the FAA. He also would have thought that the flight at high altitude and at a significant distance Manhattan.
