Sep 11, 2009 12:12pm
FAA: Flights at Ronald Reagan Airport Halted for 20 Minutes After Reports of Shots
EmailABC News' Lisa Stark reports: The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed to ABC News that flights departing from the Washington D.C. Ronald Reagan National Airport were stopped for 20 minutes as a precautionary measure after media reports of shots fired by the Coast Guard on the Potomac River.
FAA officials say 17 outbound flights were affected but arrivals were not impacted. Departures stopped at around 10:08 a.m. and resumed at 10:29 a.m.
The Coast Guard said no shots were fired, as reported by some media outlets around 10:00 a.m., and that it was just undergoing a routine exercise.
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OUR ENTIRE COUNTRY IS SPOOKED ON SEPTEMBER 11 TH OF EVERY YEAR.
When are we going to take action and get control of our safety.
Health care overhaul and global warming are not going to help stop Iran or N Korea along with all their new allies from nuking us. Obviously that is what they are preparing for while our new administration is playing kids games.
TOUGHEN UP GOVERNMENT…YOU HAVE FAMILIES ALSO WHO WILL BE THE SAME VICTIMS AS THE REST OF US !
Posted by: astormcloud | September 11, 2009, 12:36 pm 12:36 pm
THIS IS CNN.
Posted by: Anderson Pooper | September 11, 2009, 12:46 pm 12:46 pm
CNN RATINGS NEED RESCUE!
Posted by: BREAKING NEWS | September 11, 2009, 12:50 pm 12:50 pm
We were not informed of this drill.
Posted by: Teddy's SEARCH+RESCUE | September 11, 2009, 1:10 pm 1:10 pm
The government is working on the all threats. They just don’t want us to panic. That is why you don’t hear about what they are being proactive against those types of threats.
Posted by: DB | September 11, 2009, 1:13 pm 1:13 pm
correction…
how they are being proactive against those types of threats.
Posted by: DB | September 11, 2009, 1:14 pm 1:14 pm
The Military and any other government organization should seriously consider not having training exercises on 9/11.
Posted by: Bulldog | September 11, 2009, 1:38 pm 1:38 pm
Who would believe CNN?
Posted by: Terry | September 11, 2009, 1:42 pm 1:42 pm
Its just the evil fear-mongering Bush administration trying once again to keep the…
Oh. Wait.
Never mind.
Posted by: RaiderDan | September 11, 2009, 1:47 pm 1:47 pm
One would think that the exercise could have been scheduled on any other day but this. This is really not unlike Obama’s photo-opp flyover of NYC a few months ago. I am in no way a fan of CNN, but I cannot agree with Mouthpiece Gibbs that this is all their fault.
Posted by: bill.riordan | September 11, 2009, 2:09 pm 2:09 pm
A day of service anyone?
Posted by: sorryplacenow | September 11, 2009, 2:41 pm 2:41 pm
CNN was actually serving its community of few dozen viewers.
Posted by: biggoofer | September 11, 2009, 2:47 pm 2:47 pm
Who in the he!! is doing the thinking in that town?
Okay — so we don’t have any more bonehead moves:
1) Don’t do any low elevation photo ops in airplanes near buildings in any major city, but especially New York City. Ever. K?
2) Don’t do any “routine” coast gaurd operations, with gunshots, within 1000 miles of the White House.
3) Don’t set off a small (let’s say…no more than 5-megaton)nuke “dirty” bomb so you can practice for the real thing.
4) pass on crashing an un-manned Boeing 747 airliner into the ocean to hone your crash preparedness techniques.
5) Skip detonation of a small nuke in the atlantic ocean to study tsunami physics.
6) Rethink setting a small forest fire to study how to prevent a big one
7) Don’t shove a socialist, unaffordable, ill-conceived, unread health care plan down the throats of American taxpayers that don’t want it
See? Each of the disasters above can be avoided with just a little common sense!!
Next!
Posted by: rc | September 11, 2009, 2:47 pm 2:47 pm
There were no shot fired people!! It was spoken over the radio, which CNN picked up!
There is a reason routine training operations aren’t made public notice. That is the easiest time for an attack when the “routine” is known.
Posted by: Nick | September 11, 2009, 2:58 pm 2:58 pm
The intelligent question is WHY is ANYONE having “exercises” that close to ANY major gov’t facilities on this day?
Let alone with a mile or so of a gathering of the familes of the victims of that day.
Even the slightest amount of common sense tells you if your going to have to do an “exercise”, you DO NOT do it anywhere near any gov’t facility, NY, Washington or that field in PA.
Common Sense People…Just Apply a little occasionally!!!!
Posted by: Mike_C | September 11, 2009, 3:27 pm 3:27 pm
The coast guard does exercises on the river all the time. That’s what they need to do. There is no part of the Potomac in DC that isn’t within feet of a government something. A mile is a good distance. The only problem here is irresponsible news organizations like CNN that report without checking the facts. In fact it was probably a very efficient use of time. The boat were probably going to be in that part of the river because of the 9/11 events so why not have them practice for an emergency. I give 1% blame to the government on this one and 99% blame to the news media. The only thing the coast guard should do in encrypt there radio so the media and terrorist (sorry for being redundant) can’t listen in.
Posted by: Robert G | September 11, 2009, 3:47 pm 3:47 pm
Coast Guard undergoing a routine exercise in an area near the President on 9/11 during 9/11 ceremonies. That is genius. Next they’ll be low flying a jumbo jet over the Statue of Liberty with military jets trailing it just to get a photo…oh, wait.
Posted by: Pattern | September 11, 2009, 3:50 pm 3:50 pm
CNN = Communist News Network
MSNBC = Mostly Stuff Nobody Cares (about)
Posted by: Garfield | September 11, 2009, 4:57 pm 4:57 pm
Yeah, uh next time we’re doing a training drill, um you may want to check into um, using some type of training code words, or uh, not using openly monitored communication lines, uh at least on 9/11. And don’t buzz New York in any airplanes, OK? And let’s see what we can do about not freaking out the American people, if we can? How’s that sound for the new way that we run things?
Posted by: senator_kang | September 11, 2009, 5:21 pm 5:21 pm
During our national day of service, perhaps military folks could get in their dress a’s and participate in exercises to remember those who suffered from terrorism and the resulting wars.
or, we could have a national day of shopping like our last administration suggested.
Posted by: Dennis | September 11, 2009, 5:53 pm 5:53 pm
The USCG is now a part of homeland security, so if you’re demanding reason, sanity and logic, good luck finding any.
Posted by: Skyhawk_maintainer | September 12, 2009, 12:58 am 12:58 am