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Obama's Plane Forced Into Unexpected Landing; NTSB Investigates 2nd Obama Flying Incident

by PEP | July 7, 2008 at 08:33 pm | 625 views | 8 comments

UPDATE: This is the second recent incident involving Obama's aircraft.

Update: In January, Obama's plane struck another aircraft while Obama's Cessna was taxiing at Midway Airport in Chicago. No one was hurt in that incident.

Original story follows.

Obama's Md-80 experienced flight problems today. Obama was enroute from Chicago to Charlotte.

The National Transportation Safety Board said Monday that it is investigating what caused Senator Barack Obama’s plane to make an unexpected landing today in St. Louis.

The presumptive Democratic nominee for president was traveling from Chicago to Charlotte when the pilot's first officer announced that they were experiencing controllability issues with the pitch of the MD-80 series aircraft.

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PEP

at 20:44 on July 7th, 2008

This is a developing story, in terms of two separate aircraft incidents involving Obama's self-chosen aircraft. The mechanical failure was termed "serious."

julianw

at 20:41 on July 7th, 2008

Thanks PEP. See previous NP coverage here.

PEP

at 20:49 on July 7th, 2008

Thanks, Julian--my perspective is a bit different. Although both Highlight and the auto-tagging forced me to post in little bits, the gist of my post is that this is the second flying incident involving Obama's private craft this year.

BTW, if you get time, could you let the programming wizards know that the system is still slinging out tons of auto keywords on its own, then refusing to publish because there are too many keywords? ;} Thanks in advance.

PEP

at 20:50 on July 7th, 2008

Lcastor's earlier coverage of today's incident is here.

julianw

at 20:52 on July 7th, 2008

PEP, I'll pass that on. I've seen that problem too, thanks for the heads up.

Luiz Castro

at 21:06 on July 7th, 2008

PEP, that is ok, they are about the same theme but different on approach.

BTW, my name is Castro.

Regards,

PEP

at 21:47 on July 7th, 2008

You are so kind! It is so good to enjoy the site with others who like cooperation and linking to each other. I'm not really into the conflict and competition, you know? :)

I'm sorry about the typo. I know what your last name is but today was typing without my brace. Ooops.