Air Force One Executes Missed Approach in Connecticut with President Obama On Board

ABC reports on a stupid story like this, but doesn’t report that the President is shutting out a newspaper over “bias”. George Soros will pay you well to remain silent on this.

Members of the press were too busy fawning over prez O Great One to notice anything.

i love it!

This is news?
Ok then, I just aborted going to the restroom on the first floor because it was being cleaned by the maintenance crew. I safely maneuvered myself to the second floor and was successful in my attempt. PRINT THAT ABC!!!

Point? The Prez comes to ransack New England for his top priority – getting re-elected. He was delayed. Big deal, he doesn’t have anything better to do until the fundraiser starts.

This type of “go Around” happens all the time…..its a common practice
What more important is ABC and NBC along with the NYTs and the Washington Post ties to a convicted felon and the White houses tie to the same… Who is pulling Obamas strings.. who IS the puppet master? I believe we know now
The leader of the communist soviet union said, ““We will take America without firing a shot…….We will BURY YOU! We can’t expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism. We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.”
(From an address to Western Ambassadors at the Polish embassy in Moscow on November 18, 1956.)

If Obama would have made the call they’d be landing tomorrow morning…or after 9 holes.

Did the pilots decide to return Barry to Kenya…his home country?

It’s not easy land a plane while transporting an ego like Barry’s.

Arnold, on the other hand, wishes he had aborted his approach.

Sort of a metaphor for the entire Obama Presidency “Missed Approach”.. Next

Why is it that if this president is so popular there are hardly ANY comments in news stories that suggest anybody feels anything but contempt for him?

A pilot has to abort an instrument approach anytime he or she reaches “decision height” and does not have the runway environment in sight as required by FAA rules. If the pilot feels unconfortable about continuing the approach at any time, and he/she executes a “missed approach,” that pilot is to be commended. Great work by those in command. They did exactly what is required and/or good operating practice.
The President is in good hands with these professionals.

Breaking news…There is a sick person at the hospital. Breaking news…There was a snowstorm this past winter in New England…Breaking news…There is a traffic jam during rush hour in Chicago. Breaking news…There are babies crying at a nursery. Breaking news…There are powerful thunderstorms storms during the Spring months. Why does the media go crazy about obvious. normal news?

The press is amazing….slow news day….missed approaches are a no brainer and occur every day throughout the world….Pilot got to minimums and could not see the runway environment to safely put it down. How about more on the soldiers wounded or KIA in Afghanistan today.
Look for other real news….like we are broke and Geitner / Bernanke have new experiments in store for us.

almost one small step for man , one huge leap for the United States ….
I guess we will have to wait till 2012

They probably just saw a protestor near the airport. No, they thought they saw one. No, they saw a rumor on the internet there would be one.

Some of the comments following this story are hilarious. So I guess there was some value in reporting it: a good laugh. And, thankfully, it was a safe landing.

Obama’s bravery is to be commended. I am surpised Jake Tapper didn’t include the speculation that Obama calmed down the nervous flight crew and cooly instructed the pilot on how to safely land the plane.

Was he late for his golf game?

This is bigger news than the capping of Osama!

ABC always with the good stories, who cares that we have 15 trillion in debt and the dems are in complete denial about it. Who cares? Go ABC!

You may remember that the plane carrying the Polish president and many national leaders apparently tried to land when it shouldn’t and it ended in tragedy. Good work U.S. flight crew.

I hope that the flight crew is balanced in terms of gender, ethnicity, religion, and race – rather than being chosen for their flight skills.

Obama himself had to take over the controls all the while taking out a few terrorists and assisting the FBI in a couple of cases and was even able to bow to a couple of muslim leaders while doing it.
He has saved all 57 states again! No need for the marine corpse now!

Let’s re-title this non-story – “Air Force One pilots circled the airport due to fog”.
Yes, B.O. was irritated, but the pilot decided that he’d follow FAA regulations that tell him not to land if (at decision height of 250ft or so) he/she cannot see the runway. As far as landing using instruments, one great man once said, “trust but verify”.

The members of the press didn’t notice because they were busy licking the messiah’s toes. Did they notice that the Boston Herald has been denied access to cover his fundraiser here in Boston today? So much for a free and unfettered press. So much for the transparent administration. LIAR!

“You may remember that the plane carrying the Polish president and many national leaders apparently tried to land when it shouldn’t and it ended in tragedy.”
Da, was accident. No reset button available.

The President’s courage in the face of this existential menace brings tears to my eyes. This is a man who inspires. Probably exhales, too. He can do anything. Yes, he can. One wonders why the airplane, I mean, he could save the taxpayers a bundle by levitating himself and flying, superman-like, to these fundraisers.

Can we please respect Air Force One for real Presidents? This one should be named Air Farce One or maybe Air Farce Fiddy!

I bet it was Bush’s fault… poor Obama; the child king is unconvinced again. Don’t fret, the main stream will build this into a story where Obama had to take the controls and land it for the failed pilot…betch ya.

SLOW NEWS DAY.-
Yeah, nothing going on…

Boy, the clouds sure are racist up there in Connecticut…

It’s Bush’s fault!

How can we blame Bush for this?… oh wait… lets blame the president… oh wait… we are all idiots anyway. Yes you are!

Obama – such a drama queen. He’ll do anything for attention.

Forgive me for changing the subject, but a few days ago I thought I read something on PP about the Libyian Rebel Leadership visiting the WH. I can’t seem to find it now. Was it on here or did I read it somewhere else? Did anyone read it here?

Hmmm @lisastark,
Is more bad unemployment data coming out today? What’s with the crisis (distraction)?

I know someone, who knows someone, who knows the food caterer on AF1 that he asked the pilots to circle around once more so he could catch a few more minutes of The View. Common was on.

Distraction from Pelosi/Health Care/Vouchers

Just burning JET A fuel for Obama bucks….no spiking the football?…however advertising covert OPS on the Goodyear blimp was OK…..Thanks SEALS sorry you were outed….UCMJ (Obama …. what is that?)

Glad everything worked out, unlike most I put my country first and my party second.

Officials on the ground were probably checking his immigration status and hadn’t heard back from Hillary at the State Department yet.

maybe the LORD is trying to get this corrupt regime’s attention…

These guys are the best pilots in the world. They made the right decision.

I have never been on a commercial flight that has had a missed approach. I have been flying for business for over 30 years and have made approximately 500 business flights. I was on a military flight that had a missed approach once.
Missed approaches are not as common as you are being led to believe.

And in other news, the POTUS burped after lunch.
In other words, this sounds like a non-story and not an out of the ordinary occurrence with an airplane.

The state-controlled media runs stories like this so they don’t have to run real stories. E.G. How the Muslim brotherhood is taking over Egypt in the wake of the “democracy” rallies. How Assad, in Syria, a man that the administration has referred to as a “reformer”, has killed about 2000, and arrested about 10,000, of his own citizens in the past eight weeks suppressing true democracy rallies. How Saudi Arabia is so nervous about a lack of American reliability/ credibility that they are starting to deal with the Chi-coms. Not to mention stories about soaring food prices, soaring gasoline prices, or high unemployment levels.
If they ran real stories even the uninformed realize that this president is destroying the country.

If was a common occurance why is it such a big deal? As if we care!

I’m reminded of the famous headline…”FOUR UNHURT AS GAS STOVE FAILS TO EXPLODE”.
A valueless waste of time and space. I mean that about both the story and Obama.

He must have forgotten his golf clubs so he had to turn around.

What is Obama (the Socialist usurper) going to do with all this money he is collecting from his fellow crooks, while lavishly jet-setting around on with tax-payer dime, enjoying hot plates of his much adored $100 per pound Kobe beef? What accomplishment is he going to tout that he has accomplished using his campaign funds?????? Does he ever work?? What happened to “laser like focus on jobs”??? LOL!! Yes folks, it’s all baloney….he is destroying America to set up his Socialist regime.

Sorry to change the subject, but why exactly are NATO helicopters firing on Pakistan? That is SO incredibly dangerous, they’re going to start WWIII with this crap. WWIII, when it comes, will be a war like we’ve never seen. It will be nuclear. Pakistan has nukes, I don’t think it’s wise to be entering their airspace right now. I’m scared for my country and the rest of the world.
Posted by: Kay | May 18, 2011 11:38:37 AM
Kay, The more countries we enter into in these “missions”, the more unprotected we are at home. Is Syria next? It is scary.

I’ve learned to enjoy skimming thru the “news stories”, and quickly jumping into the comments. Mr.O, do you feel the love? If you go by the comments, the plane should have done a flyby and made you jump the last 250 ft. Think of all the fuel and the grief it would have saved the country… Does Airforce 1 burn $4.00 gas too? Oh yeah, it’s free! I almost forgot… My bad…

I guess Diane Sawyer will open with this.

“the pilot was uncomfortable completing the approach due to visibility, cloud ceiling, or any number of reasons, so he circled for a second approach and had Obama land the plane for him.” :-)

Did ABC run this story by George Soros first?
This fluff piece is just cover for Obamas now rapidly falling poll numbers and Obamacare waivers that Nancy and Harry are scarfing up
OBAMA__________VS_________AMERICA

Whats Obama doing in Connecticut, trying to cover up for his phony social security number?

If this is the best the righites have they are going to be aching from the beating in 2012 LMAO.

We’ve seen Obama’s approach, now it’s time to see his departure.

AF1 is just about worn out. It only lands long enough for the prez to play golf.

Oops! Another “Present” vote on the horizon!

Oh well. Maybe tomorrow.

Why is this newsworthy? It was a routine missed approach. The traffic light near my house cycled red to green to yellow and back to red again, but you didn’t report that!

A missed approach is mandated on an instrument approach at several points. If you reach a point, let’s say the outer marker and your at the designated attitude and the runway is not in sight you must execute a missed approach. Pilots that fail to heed this usually end up dead. The pilot of Air Force One is a man of exact skills and understands the importance of his passengers. He flies by the approved approaches. This is no big deal and frankly isn’t news worthy.

This is news? And Jake needs a new picture of himself on this page. The old one’s just not him.

“missed approach” pretty much sums up his administration so far….

He got a do over on the approach…too bad we don’t have a do over on the election

A lot of comments say “Why is this news?” It’s about Duh Won and he does love his name in print.

“The radar controller simply ‘vectors’ the aircraft back around for another approach,” he said. “It is a way of being safe rather than completing an approach that is not deemed to be a good one. Happens all the time, even for commercial and military flights.” Let’s hope the radar controller was awake.

oh my, what news. obama probably told the pilot to do it to get some more air time…big woop

Hey Rahm, this sounds like a crisis that “went to waste”!

And a “go around” is news? The Yemeni guy yelling “Allah is great” before trying to open a cockpit door in flight didn’t get this much coverage.

“Sources said the attempt was not a touch-and-go or dramatic maneuver that would have caught attention from those on the ground.”
Then why is the news even devoting any time to it?
Must be a slow news day.

I expect tonight the pres will have to address the nation about this. “After being briefed on the situation I made the decision to go ahead with the landing and under my direction the landing was successful.
A “missed approach” is no big thing, all airports have published procedures for doing this while flying IFR. It just means that the pilot for one reason or another was not satisfied with the approach and decided a go around was warranted.

RAAAAAACISM!!!!!!!!!!!!

I remember a couple non precision (?) (can’t remember – been out of aviation for years) missed approaches when I was an engr on C-130′s in the Coast Guard years ago-
Fine flying machine. I was on one of those that had some serious firepower. Crazy stuff…Saw what it did to those slobs that got spotted. Wild times.

Hey Stop it. You know He flew in in his Superman suit and got rid of bin Laden.

who the hell cares?

By the time the BHO news outlets get hold of this, he’ll be the one who brought the plane around and landed it…bet the pilot actually had a heart attack and was unconscious in the cockpit…BHO went up, took over the controls, radioed in the message, took it back up and around, and brought it in for the perfect landing…yeah, that’s it! And he was giving the pilot CPR as he landed!!! At the very least this was just another ploy to get some out of the ordinary news and sympathy for the heroic BHO…calm in the face of danger and possible destruction! What a bunch of bovine scatology!!!

Many of these comments are so hateful, it’s sad. Some of u r blaming the president for cloud cover? Barack Obama won the 2008 election, fair and square, just like when he became president of Harvard Law Review, on the merits, fair and square. This guy is smart and decent and your president, so accept reality. How many of our presidents were asked for ID? Reading this stuff is like watching 1960s film of people proudly blocking the college doors. Sad. I’m begging you all to take a Civics class. When President Reagan went to Reykjavik, I wanted him to succeed (even though I did not vote for him); now, people cheered when we were NOT selected as an Olympics site…cheered AGAINST the United States! Overtaken by hate. Sad.

Pilot probably made the approach from the right and had to make a course correction to keep the Campaigner in Chief from puking on himself.

Wow the comments on ABC is entertaining Not something I ever thought would ever happen after all it is the station that Obama goes to for all his new flashes. Guess the minions are getting tired of all the BS.

If the weather was really below minimums, he should have gone to his alternate.

oops sorry my fault…

abc is a 1st amendment joke.

One way of getting a Dreamliner from Boeing for No. 1

I agree with all who say who cares, the collateral damage would not have been good but who cares about BO, not me

No, it’s Sarah Palin’s fault.

Big deal! Happens everyday all around the world! BTW…..giving Obumma the credit for killing bin Laden is like ordering a hamburger from McDonald’s and giving Ronald McDonald the credit. The credit for cooking the hamburger goes to the cook….NOT THE CLOWN IN CHARGE!!

The President will interrupt regular national television programming tonight to make an announcement stating “Earlier today, I made the decision to order the Captain of Air Force One to conduct a go around at Bradley Airport in Connecticut.” The White House press office has already reported that the decision by President Obama to order the “go around” was not based on any information acquired from the utilization of EIT’s or Enhanced Interrogation Tactics, nor is it, in any way, attributable to Bush administration policies. According to Jay Carney, White House Press Secretary, the President told the Captain of the aircraft to “Busta move” when he heard the first officer mention that low visibility may be a problem. For more details on yet another heroic action by our beloved President, tune into the official Obama news network, MSNBC.

This is NOT news!!! Why does the media report on such nonsense?

should have let JFK, Jr. land the plane…..

They have to keep the messiah in the news – you know, we can’t live a day without him.

I HOPE the plane is ok……….And the crew….wouldn’t want to lose anything of value……..

It’s definitely Bush’s fault. In some way.

After reading some of these comments… I now know why America is the butt of the rest of the world’s jokes.
Jesus people. Get over it already. Quit making everything Obama does a conspiracy.

You mean to tell me that UPS and FED-Ex have FLIR heads up displays that allows them to literally them to land in zero viz, but Air Force One does not? Really? Shocking.

FYI: That 747 is only designated “Air Force One” when the President is aboard (there are 3 or 4 identical planes if memory serves). Ditto for the Chinook “Marine One” Helicopters.
Nice Journalism as usual, ABC.

When will we have a parade to celebrate Barry saving the plane from sure disaster? Take a victory lap Barry!

-Why is the Go Green president flying AF1 to Connecticut from DC? No one wonders this.-
You didn’t hear? The plane is solar powered, but all the clouds made it land, the panels couldn’t get power…

Damn.

Too bad it didnt plunge from 40K feet straight into the senate building.

Oh my gosh! I hope no one was injured.

Oh, and I forgot to mention:
When is GITMO closing again?
When are we leaving Iraq?
When are we leaving Afghanistan?
When will Obama actually support coal mining and use as he promised repeatedly in his electioneering?
When will Obama acutally get behind more drilling for oil and gas domestically as he has repeatedly promised?
About the only promise he actually kept was that he was going to make American energy prices skyrocket.
(He promised cheaper health care for all but his health care scam has increased prices and has NOT made health care any more affordable or available to ALL so I don’t count passing that terrible health care bill as a completed promise.)

Jake! Don’t bait the baggers!
If you mention things like this, you are basically forcing half the Republicans on this forum to share their loud, obnoxious, and ugly fantasies. They cannot be expected to restrain their hope for a catastrophic tragedy to befall someone they hate.
Please don’t bait them.

>>>>>>>FYI: That 747 is only designated “Air Force One” when the President is aboard (there are 3 or 4 identical planes if memory serves). Ditto for the Chinook “Marine One” Helicopters.
Nice Journalism as usual, ABC.<<<<<
Yeah, and one further…whatever plane the President is on is immediately re-signed AF1. If the President wants to go for a ride with you on your Single Engine, your plane's callsign is now OFFICIALLY Air Force One.

Poor BLIP. Wishing it were so doesn’t make it so.
You have my sympathies.

Maybe he should stay home and stop wasting fuel. He might consider no jobs, high fuel and food prices, unemployment, debt, etc-
That’s only for the little people to worry about.

What is the big deal about a GO AROUND???? Conditions sucked. Where is this news??? Oh yeah, ABC doesn’t have any pilots consulting on their stories, just journalism majors who can barely write grammatically correct sentences.

Please take no chances with Obama’s safety. If anything happened to him… can you imagine… a President Biden? Dumb…meet Dumber.

Don’t blame Lisa for the headline. Her report didn’t include the fact that President Obama was on Air Force One which is the definition of Air Force One. That bit of obviousness was added by the headline writer.
On the other hand, it isn’t news, either. This isn’t a newspaper or a broadcast, where you have to fill a certain amount of space. This is the internet. You can go as long, OR AS SHORT, as needed. This entire article isn’t needed.
(Maybe Lisa had to file something or they would bounce her expense report? That doesn’t mean they actually had to add it to ABCnews.com)

Welllllll…he said he MISSED being anonymous.

Obama was obviously distracted and forgot to part the clouds. Either that or the teleprompter wasn’t ready to land and vetoed the whole thing.

I feel kind of like I do when my favorite sports team nearly pulls off a big comeback at the end of the game, but the opposing team hangs on to win…

A go-around is not a big deal…it’s not even a news story! Is this some warped attempt by another liberal writer to stir up some concern or sympathy towards the President? Not working!!

another ploy to try for sympathy in order to boost numbers.

Tired of this narcissist in the news everyday for doing nothing…straw man.

In all my years flying commercial airliners (over 1000 flights, I have not once experienced an aborted landing. Sure, we’ve circled and waited for the right time to land before, but a pilot never had to pull up and abort.

Stark and Tapper and ABC wouldn’t know a go-around if it bit ‘em in the Obama.

Nena: None of the helicopters at HMX-1 are Chinooks. The one we most see is a Sikorsky H-3. They also have Sikorsky Ch-53′s and Blackhawks and Boeing VERTOL CH-46′s Chinooks are made by Boeing VERTOL and are designated CH-47′s.
I wonder what the weather minimums are for Air Force One. Reported visibility 1.5 miles and ceiling variable 300-1000 ft? Airliners would be executing go-arounds all the time with minimums that high unless they are non-precision approaches. Bradley has approaches for that runway with much lower minimums.

And in other news…the sun rose in the East today and is expected to set in the West…

“Members of the press on board Air Force One said they didn’t notice anything abnormal occurred. ”
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Pretty much the way it has been for the last two years covering the oBama administration.

First time I have ever heard of a missed approach by Air Force One. I think. Actually it might be the second time. Still that’s a rare occurrence for that particular bird. He has priority for a thousand miles ahead of his vectors. Maybe next time he might try missing the reporters…THAT WOULD BE REAL BIG NEWS! FOR SURE.

But he HAD to give a university talk as cover for the two DNC events. What crap this guy is doing.

And in other news a plane had to land. It arrived at it’s destination. Jeez, it’s time to flush and get rid of these so called news organizations, and Obama too.

This is not news. If you read an approach plate there are hard numbers that state; if you don’t have the runway environment execute a missed approach.
The pilot does not have the option to descend bellow decision height. And the pilot that does descend bellow DH is risking his life.
IMHO: A missed approach is a non-news item; it is however a testament to the professionalism of the AF1 flight crew.

The only possible explanation as to why Obama had to suffer the indignity of taking a second approach is that the pilot, airplane, runway and even the clouds are all racists. The DOJ along with ABC will be seriously investigating this latest incident of racism against our first black president.

I have done many missed approaches, Not a big deal. If you dont have visual on the runway when you reach minimums, You power up fly the the chart to the hold and try again. Why is this even news.

Couldn’t the pilot just park the plane until the cloud lifted?
(Yes, I’m joking…)

@Jake – like the Left is pure as driven snow. You would make a good brown noser for YOUR Messiah.

Such a wonderful blog. I gathered lots of information.

Why is this story back on the Drudge Report on the top of the page 7 days after it happened?

re: posted by ROY
“I’m sure Obama directed the go-around. Another gutsy-call by our commander in chief.”
pricelss comment from ROY. LMAO!!!

It was Bush’s fault!

Back on top of Drudge again. This has been happening every day for like 2 weeks now??

This is really not news….just a smart and experienced pilot.

I’m a conservative and I despise Obama, but I gotta say, Druge is making a total clown of himself with such idiotic headlines. First of all, this is a non issue. A pointless article. Secondly, the fact that Drudge will put up anything on his website that maybe have the slightest negative connotations about Obama or his administration makes him no better than the Bush hating libs. Time to find me a new news source. And Matt, grow up.

Why does this article keep popping up on Drudge since May? Very odd!

Unless you’re a flyer or an air traffic controller, your remarks and opinions about approach procedures are irrelevant!

I am a pilot. Most people don’t have any idea what they’re talking about and can only sensationalize what is really a non-event in the aviation world. Someone asks, “Who decided to descend into the clouds?” or some such ignorant garbage. Well, it’s all part of an instrument approach procedure, something instrument-rated pilots perform when needed. “Flying by instruments” still requires that the pilot actually land the plane. The instrument approach is a standardized and specific way to get the aircraft down through coulds to an altitude above the ground where, after the plane breaks into clear air below the cloud layer, the pilot can visually land the plane. If, at that designated altitude above the runway, the pilot still cannot see the runway clearly enough, he can make the decision to “go around” and try it again using what is called a “missed approach”. This will allow the pilot to attempt the approach again and, hopefully, allow the cloud cover to lift enough for the runway to be seen at the decision point the next time. The declining number of pilots is taking a toll not only on the aviation industry but on the general public’s ability to understand that something the media spouts out in ignorance is just that.

Why does this story keep showing up on Drudge? Is that site finally falling apart?