See What Happens When A Plane Violates Presidential Airspace | TODAY

Each time President Trump spends a weekend away from the White House, there’s a massive military effort to protect him from threats… including from above. TODAY national investigative correspondent Jeff Rossen was given rare access to present a dramatic demonstration of how the Air National Guard keeps presidential airspace safe.

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See What Happens When A Plane Violates Presidential Airspace | TODAY

[macjalac]

"We are not gonna respond and see what the fighter does"
F-16: Fires missiles
"We are not gonna respond and see what the missile does"

[theycallmemavericky]

Narrator: “ As you can see now we’ve been shot down and we’re on fire”

[userd]

"We're not gonna respond and see what it does" you can tell this man has had it with life

[privateprivate]

This happened to me when I was a system operstor for an aerial survey company.. The pilot of our small Cessna wasn't feeling well that day and wasn't communicating on his radio or had turned it off. He wasn't feeling well and we were just going through the motions and traveling to the site to survey. The jets appeared out of nowhere and were much closer to us. They simply pointed at the pilot and pointed down. He got on the radio and luckily tere was a tiny airport nearby. The Seret Service interviwed us separetly for a few hours and inspected the plane. The pilot was so upset because he is usualy so strict on protocals and checking for tfr's- much less never would turn off his radio. One guy said we flew under Air Force One and another guy said we flew over Obama golfing. They told us another guy had broken the tfr and didn't understand what was going on and spoke limited English. He thought the jets were there to say "hello" and then started taking pictures. The Secret Service said if you don't land right away like we did, they will get in front of you and blast you with one of the jets propulsion. If you don't land after that, they shoot you down. Luckily the man got the point after they blasted him with the afterburner. Unfortunately for our pilot, it happened over his hmetown of Stuart, FL and made the local papers. We were based out of Orlando and our bosses were very upset. They didn't fire the pilot and I think he still works for them- he is a really good guy and the only day he ever relaxed his ways, fighter jets get scrambled followed by interogations by the Secret Service.

[MrCurly]

2:50 “We are not gonna respond and see what the fighter does”

F-16: Fires 2 homing missiles

[cyberpunk_Amen]

narrator: "as you can see the missile is now coming towards us. amazing manuever."

[Bladers_Requiem]

Gotta love Civil Air Patrol helping the military train for this stuff

[burgerman]

I can imagine a completely unaware elderly guy in an old rickety homemade plane with no radio or a broken radio thinking the pilots in the jets are either drunk or are just doing tricks to show off before he gets blasted.

[johnbrowning]

"Get out of the vehicle with your hands in the air"

[UhgeneIgnorian]

"As you can see this will be my last news broadcast"

[vladimirputin]

Everyone's roasting the journalist and i absolutely love it

[WilkinsonX]

Props to the journalist willing to give up his life to show us what happens.

[andy.]

"We are not gonna respond and see what the fighter does".
F-16: your free trial of living has ended.

[andrewkemp]

Narrator: As you can see, a homing missile has been fired toward us for demonstration purposes

[TheDAJLeg]

Lol I like the way they clipped the pilot getting into the plane and taking off to make it all appear faster than actually is lol

[mikebragg]

Feets away...the jet is like 2 football feild away from the plain..we wasn't even that close

[totaldramagamer]

Girl: I bet he's messing around with other girls right now.

The guy: "So anyway I just angered five F-16s..."

[jaycho]

F-16: Literally a quarter mile away

Narrator: F-16 is just feet from us.

Journalism at its finest.

[Trd]

Imagine the fighter pilot forgets its a test. And takes them out 😂

[devilsoffspring]

2:38 Look at the F-16's angle of attack, the pilot has to hold the nose up high just to fly slowly enough to pass the Cessna like it's stationary :)