As the fighter descended, the airliner was approaching Las Vegas air space at about 312 knots on a heading of 23degrees, flying straight-and-level within the confines of its designated airway.
And so, the Spanish (for whom this remains a sore spot) keep playing silly buggers with things like being really uptight about air space and planes landing at Gibraltar's tiny airfield, or harassing intruders in or close to their territorial waters.
"Trust me," he said in a 20-minute speech as he confirmed that the United States had asked to use Pakistan air space and sought its intelligence about Mr. bin Laden and its logistical support for a possible military thrust into Afghanistan.
Soon after he entered the White House, he and his advisors had the Air Force start penetrating Russian air space to try to elicit information about Russian warning systems, Operation Able Archer.
DETECTIVE PHIL PASSARO On his day off, helping with security at J.F.K. Airport: "After the second aircraft hit the World Trade Center the F.A.A. shut down the New York air space, and all aircraft that were about to take off or on the taxiways were returned to their gates.
"It's noisy, there's vibrations and it's always dusty," says Jeff Thompson, an associate vice president with Colliers Seely, a Los Angeles real estate firm that has subleased about two dozen air space properties over 15 years.
Inside and separated from the bottom by a narrow air space is a densely innervated membrane of about 15 μm thickness stretching between the walls of the pit.
They do care; they care about anything in our air space," said Salas.
Other officials said the drone had spent about 20 minutes in Israeli air space.
The former front man for the 1980s band Poison, Celebrity Apprentice contestant and well-documented drug user knows something about flying high in regulated air space.
