[Scan-DC] FW: Lost Navy UAV enters Washington airspace (earlier this month)

[Doug Kitchener]

Sorry, msg to the list got messed up somehow....

Whoops...

I didn't hear any scanner traffic about it, but I did hear or see a news article on it yesterday or today... can't remember where. Wonder if PAX notified anybody... NORAD or FAA... and what the ultimate destiny of the thing was... did it plop down in somebody's backyard, or plow through the roof of the local Giant and blow up the meat counter, or self-destruct, or did they regain control of it, or what...

 Shades of the Payne Stewart Learjet incident...

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> > From: b_thom at juno.com
> > Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:14:21 +0000
> > To: Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
> > Subject: [Scan-DC] Lost Navy UAV enters Washington airspace (earlier this month)
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> > Did anyone hear any radio traffic about this?
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> > http://www.navytimes.com/news/2010/08/navy-uav-enters-dc-082510/
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> > Lost Navy UAV enters Washington airspace
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> > By Christopher P. Cavas - Staff writer
> > Posted : Thursday Aug 26, 2010 8:11:58 EDT
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> > Navy operators lost control of an unmanned aircraft earlier this month and were unable to regain control before the aircraft entered restricted airspace around the U.S. capital.
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> > According to a Navy statement, the incident took place Aug. 2 when, about 75 minutes into a routine test flight, an MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned helicopter operating out of the Patuxent River test facilities in southern Maryland lost its control link with ground operators.
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> > The aircraft then flew about 23 miles on a north-by-northwest course and entered the National Capital Region restricted airspace, part of the Air Defense Identification Zone surrounding Washington, D.C.
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