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Posted by Pierre Levesque on January 13, 2008, 2:08 pm
> Obama's plane strikes parked plane at MidwaySaturday, January 12, 2008 |
> 6:00 PMStory Media Top Stories
> No injuries reported By Ben BradleyA late night incident involving
> presidential candidate Barack Obama's plane has set off a National
> Transportation Safety Board investigation.
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> The senator's aircraft clipped the wing of another plane at Midway
> Airport.
> No one was injured in the incident. Obama and his entourage were on their
> way back from campaigning in Nevada.
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> The National Transportation Safety Board will look into this, but it is a
> relatively minor incident as far as airplane accidents go.
> The plane is parked now. Not going anywhere anytime soon. On board at 2:30
> Saturday morning: Senator Barack Obama, three staffers, secret service and
> flight crew. The plane was taxing to the private side of the airfield and
> a parking place at Atlantic Aviation. That's when the left wing of Obama's
> plane clipped the right wing of a parked and unoccupied Cessna turbo-prop.
> The Obama campaign chartered the airplane. It's a Gulfstream-2. The plane
> itself was built in 1968 and is registered to Long Charter Air out of
> Lithonia, Georgia.
> "The Las Vegas dream is the American dream for our people," said Sen.
> Barack Obama, (D) presidential candidate.
> Senator Obama has been sprinting across the country, jetting between South
> Carolina and Nevada. Friday, Illinois' freshman Senator reveled in the
> endorsement of the 60,000 member union that represents food service
> workers in Las Vegas and across the state.
> A spokesman for Obama says the plane incident won't ground the senator or
> his campaign. Obama was in Chicago Saturday having private time with his
> family before he flies back to Nevada Sunday -- likely on a different
> plane.
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I dunno... for a guy who hates elections, politicians and the govmint so
much you sure are acting enfatuated with all this stuff these days... or
should I say daze...
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