Air traffic control (ATC) operators admonished a Spirit Airlines pilot Tuesday for flying too close to Air Force One, President Trump\u2019s official plane.<\/p>\n
Spirit flight 1300 was en route to Boston Logan International Airport from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. The communication with ATC occurred while the two planes were flying over Long Island, N.Y. <\/p>\n
\u201cSpirit 1300, turn 20 degrees right, vectors, traffic in descent. Say intentions, Spirit 1300, turn 20 degrees right. Spirit 1300, turn 20 degrees right,<\/strong> now. Spirit wings 1300, turn 20 degrees right immediately,\u201d the controller said, according to audio<\/a> from air traffic control site ATC.net obtained via flight tracking site Flightradar24.com.<\/p>\n Once the pilot acknowledged the directive, the controller said to \u201cpay attention.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cSpirit 1300, traffic\u2019s off your left wing by 8 miles, [Boeing] 747. I\u2019m sure you can see who it is,\u201d the controller said, referring to Air Force One. Roughly two minutes later, the controller said, “I’ve got to talk to you twice every time,” to the Spirit flight.<\/p>\n “Pay attention. Get off the iPad,” the controller added.<\/p>\n According to data\u00a0Flightradar24<\/a>\u00a0shared with The Hill, the two planes were within roughly eight miles of each other at around 2:24 p.m. EDT. \u00a0The incident was first reported by @xjonnyc on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n President Trump, along with first lady Melania Trump, were flying from Joint Base Andrews in Prince George\u2019s County, Maryland, to London. They arrived in the UK on Tuesday evening. The president is meeting with King Charles III and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday. <\/p>\n “Spirit Airlines flight 1300 (FLL-BOS) followed procedures and Air Traffic Control (ATC) instructions while en route to Boston (BOS) and landed uneventfully at BOS,” a Spirit spokesperson told The Hill. “Safety is always our top priority.”<\/p>\n The Hill has also reached out to the White House and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for comment.<\/p>\n Updated at 5:37 p.m. EDT Sept. 18<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Air traffic control (ATC) operators admonished a Spirit Airlines pilot Tuesday for flying too close to Air Force ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}