NORAD to hold drills in Phoenix, AZ for Super Bowl
Posted: January 29th, 2015, 10:29 pm
Wow... this same exact thing was going on the morning of 9/11 which allowed the airplanes to reach New York without intercept since the entire NE defense sector was in Canada on drills... :-ss
http://www.norad.mil/Newsroom/PressRele ... -xlix.aspx
http://www.norad.mil/Newsroom/PressRele ... -xlix.aspx
TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. – The Continental Region NORAD (CONR & Western Air Defense Sector) here will conduct Exercise Falcon Virgo 15-SB (Super Bowl XLIX) Jan. 27.
This exercise comprises a series of training flights held in coordination with the Federal Aviation Administration, Continental, U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command Region (CONR), Air Force F-16 aircraft, Customs and Border Patrol helicopter and fixed wing and Civil Air Patrol aircraft, Cessna 182s.
Exercise Falcon Virgo is designed to test CONR-WADS intercept and identification operations with a variety of scenarios involving possible hostile aircraft. Residents in the Phoenix, Gila Bend and Chandler areas of Arizona may observe USAF -16 aircraft, Customs (Helicopter and fixed wing) and/or Civil Air Patrol aircraft participating in the exercise between 3 p.m. – 7 p.m. Jan. 27 when flights are scheduled to occur.
In the event of inclement weather the exercise will be canceled.
These exercises are carefully planned and closely controlled to ensure WADS’s rapid response capability. WADS has conducted exercise flights of this nature throughout the western region since the start of Operation Noble Eagle, the command’s response to the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.