Planes Be Warned: Aircraft Violating No-Fly Zone for Chicago NATO Summit Could Be Shot Down
- Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:17am by
Liz Klimas
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Airspace within 10 nautical miles of downtown Chicago will be highly restricted with other rules imposed on an "outer ring" as well. (Photo: Wikimedia)
From May 19 to 21 during the NATO Summit in Chicago, a no-fly zone will be issued by the Federal Aviation Administration to protect dignitaries and world leaders attending the event. Whats more, the local CBS affiliate reports this also comes with a “shoot-to-kill mandate” for those who may fly into restricted airspace.
Watch the report:
This restriction includes areas within 10 nautical miles of downtown and flying below 18,000 feet. The Chicago Sun Times reports scheduled commercial and cargo planes, as well as “police, ambulance and military aircraft supporting the Secret Service” will be cleared within this zone. The Times reports an “outer ring” will also have restrictions. Here’s more from the FAA advisory it obtained:
“The United States Government may use deadly force against the airborne aircraft if it is determined that the aircraft poses an immediate security threat.”
Small aircraft pilots have been warned about where they can and cannot fly for the mid-May events around the Chicago area. (Photo: Wikimedia)
The Times notes this is not the first time flight restrictions have been imposed in the city. Small planes have been restricted from the airspace around President Barack Obama’s South Side home when he is visiting.
Last month, low-flying military helicopters with men holding machine guns were spotted weaving in and out of downtown skyscrapers. It was speculated the military exercise was in practice for the NATO event but a press release warning downtown businesses and residents said it was part of a routine exercise. Even if this was not in preparation for the mid-May event that will bring in hundreds of world leaders, Occupy supporters have been preparing for protests, which the Blaze has reported some in the city have been warned about, some going as far to suggest they leave for fear of violence. The Blaze also reported on a leaked email from the Red Cross that shows the organization is preparing for violent protests.
[H/T Drudge Report]
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minnfinn
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 10:35amIt’s “the Chicago way” of dealing with problems….
Report Post »Latter-Day-Soldier
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:49pmI wonder how long it will be until S.A.M.s are installed on the rooftops like England is doing for the Olympics?
Report Post »megarobryder
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:38pmWhy do they not simply just move the location of the summit to a nice place out in the ocean or the desert or somewhere they can be out of harms way and not be endangering the general public? Also save on all the military cost……………Oh yea ,,,,,I forgot that would be too practical.
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 3:33pmso by that logic can a plane that goes on another persons air space that is on a persons property by shot down by the owner? perhaps so by the logic and by some state laws.
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 3:28pmsick minded military thugs who would do that shouldn’t be allowed to exist on this earth.
Report Post »MittensKittens
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 3:11pmWell, maybe we’ll get lucky and Obuma will be late arriving…
Report Post »Derfel Cadarn
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 2:48pmEndangering innocent people on the ground,that makes as much sense as anything else the government does. I guess the people at NATO are more important than us hard working folks on the ground that actually pay for these useless freeloaders.
Report Post »lefty_lucy1960
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 2:35pmWatch the other hand folks.
Report Post »Arshloch
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 2:18pmGetting ‘shot down ’ in Gangsterville is a daily occurence, you do not even need an aircraft; just be there.
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 2:54pmTime for an army of unmanned drones to over fly Chicago, I bet they wouldn’t shoot very many down.
Report Post »Jeff Bassett
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 1:27pmThis is a fairly normal warning given out, although the administration can push just hard hard penalties go.
Report Post »Ideally the Air Force does not want to shoot down an aircraft that could mistakenly be in the zone as the wreckage has to “come down” if such a shoot down happens. Falling wreckage can be just as much a danger. So much more likely he “stray aircraft” will be given a terse warning and unless the aircraft is accessed to be a real threat, it will be escorted out of the airspace and harsh penalties could be given once the crew is on the ground.
Private pilots are suppose to get a pilots report and file a flight plan when flying over a certain mileage but many do not. Not getting a heads up from the local FAA office leads to stray aircraft in temporary specialty airspace zones and sometimes private pilots do get into trouble.
stop2think
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 1:26pmNot for anything but NATO has the technology to listen to conversations in a car from satellites from space, can follow terrorists with DRONES all without a pilot and controlled via a joy stick manipulated thousands of miles away, has smart bombs that literally can make 90 degree turns to follow the street grid of an enemy city, yet these same folks do not have the smarts to say, “Hey, instead of meeting in person and risking life and property, let’s teleconference.” I guess technology that is 20 years old and much cheaper to operate is beneath NATO. Sometimes, the smartest among us are the dimmest.
Report Post »Binski430
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 11:21amI thought this had been moved to Camp David?
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 2:55pmthat was the G8 summit
Report Post »CulperGang
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 11:18amTyranny pure and simple. Masses protesting the ABUSES of them by these 1% is not to be tolerated!!! shoot them kill them, Stalin/Mao/Hitler/Castro style. Squash the miserable taking up too much space masses, useless tools. Says the G20 bottom feeders.
Report Post »Question is WILL AMERICANS KILL AMERICANS for these bottom feeders??? Or have the bottom feeders put in place foreign troops who love to kill Americans(you know, like the Taliban who killed US soldiers and are now negotiating with the bottom feeders for POWER to control the M.E……..‘Operation Enduring Freedom’ with Taliban as leaders!!!! is the end result!!!.
12K US soliders dead for NOTHING! AMERICANS WAKE UP …….do not hurt each other for these criminal bottom feeders. ARREST everyone of them at this G meeting. ROUND THEM UP. They are a cancer on humanity. Got terminal illness? don’t commit suicide….do the right thing. Make it count.
Kerstile
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 2:49pmYou first.
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 11:18amWhat is a NATO doing having a meeting in Chicago? Is obama doing some ‘caterer’ friend a favor? Next they will have a black-tie dinner in the southside of chicago…where they will have to have NATO troops for protection.
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:57amOne of many hardcore steps he will take to let us know that our lives and freedoms have changed so we better get used to looking up down and all around.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:45amare you kidding me? I am feeling the freedom….
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:58amI thought that they moved the summit to Camp David? to ‘avoid’ the riots, chaos, murder, assaults, arson, rape, prostitution, theft, con artists and the OWS people?
Report Post »Banter
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 11:15am@Ruler4you
I don’t think Chicago needs the NATO summit in town for all this to occur. I think that would just be another day in the life of a liberal city with strict gun control laws.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 11:58ambanter its funny because its true chicago needs no excuse to have additional crime
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:45amIntentional airspace violations are subject to whatever corrective action is necessary, including being removed by fighter jet. This is always true – and it was true on 9-11.
TEA
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 11:06am…and pre 9-11 you were perfectly fine with the U.S. military taking down commercial airliners, right? If Bush had done that, you would still be screaming about it.
Report Post »CulperGang
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 11:20amYeah FOREIGN HOSTILES!!! NOT US CITIZENS!!! think before you spout!! There is a HUGE difference.
Report Post »G-WHIZ
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 1:02pmBut, now, If the “aircraft” is a commie-socialist, and is ******’ outa da window, and fly’in 2ft from the meatin, “oh, well he’s all right then”.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:42amAre they going to do the same in Tampa for the RNC convention? No?
So terrorists on the ground destroying American business and property a-okay … but not from the air .. get Occupy some aircraft and we can get rid of a few over Chicago .. btw when you shoot something down .. it comes down .. watch your heads in Chicago.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:56amBet they do in Charlotte for the Democratic convention!
Report Post »justangry
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 11:22am@Catb, I have a feeling the Convention will be the safest place on earth.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:38amSo what has Obama arranged to have happen during the NATO meeting? Dirty Bomb or a terrorist attack(s) on massive scale?
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:37amBill Ayers and Oblamer supporters are setting themselves up for a crisis. Oblamer is terrorizing the USA, not the Tea Party.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:45amExactly … the TEA Party is trying to keep the peace … it is within the government (and their “friends”) where you will find the anarcists.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:35amWhat’s the score between terrorists and freedom up to now? I believe the terrorists just hit another homerun on this one.
Report Post »mils
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:30amPlanes, trains,on foot…it doesn’t matter…if there is someone planning something, I sincerely doubt they will be stopped.
Report Post »Chicago?…the armpit of America? or is that Detroit…or the White House?..hhmmmm.
Oh well, a scab meeting place for a scab organization..maybe they’ll get to take a tour of the south side..no?..missing the real heart of the city..
Jennifer Flowers
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:28amThat’s one heck of a NOTAM.
https://www.facebook.com/JenniferFlowersLibertarian
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