LISTEN: Spirit Airline Pilots Rebuked by Air Traffic Controller for Flying Too Close to Air Force One: ‘Get Off the iPad!’

‘Pay attention!’, Spirit Airline pilots are told. The crew of a passenger jet was reprimanded for taking a flight course too close to Air Force One and for taking too long to adjust direction. The incident occurred over Long Island, and President Donald J. Trump was aboard AF1. New York Post reported: “Pilots flying Spirit Airlines Flight 1300, traveling from Fort Lauderdale to Boston, were scolded by an air traffic controller Tuesday after they tried warning them, they were rapidly closing in on the president’s plane altitude and flight path as it was en route to the United Kingdom. […]...