{"id":27683,"date":"2025-09-17T20:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/27683\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T20:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:46:08","slug":"air-traffic-control-warns-flight-to-turn-away-from-air-force-one-as-it-brings-trumps-to-london-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/27683\/","title":{"rendered":"Air traffic control warns flight to turn away from Air Force One as it brings Trumps to London | US News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An air traffic controller had to repeatedly warn a flight to turn away from Air Force One&#8217;s path as the two aircraft flew over New York on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Air Force One &#8211; carrying a London-bound <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/donald-trump-5711\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> and his wife Melania &#8211; was a short while into its journey when the incident took place.<\/p>\n<p>The other plane was travelling from Fort Lauderdale in Florida to Boston, Massachusetts, when a seemingly frustrated air traffic controller eventually told its pilot: &#8220;Pay attention. Get off the iPad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Follow live: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/trump-uk-state-visit-live-king-windsor-melania-queen-starmer-latest-13425640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The latest updates from Donald Trump&#8217;s state visit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sky News&#8217; US partner NBC News reports that in a LiveATC (Air Traffic Control) recording, the controller can be heard telling the Spirit Airlines flight to &#8220;turn 20 degrees&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pay attention, Spirit 1300, turn 20 degrees right,&#8221; they say. &#8220;Spirit 1300, turn 20 degrees right now. Spirit Wings, 1300 turn 20 degrees right immediately. Pay attention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/skynews-donald-trump-air-force-one_7022480.jpg\"   alt=\"The presidential aircraft touched down at Essex airport London Stansted on Tuesday. Pic: AP\" data-testid=\"article-image-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Image:<br \/>\n        The presidential aircraft touched down at Essex airport London Stansted on Tuesday. Pic: AP<\/p>\n<p>The controller continues asking them to turn away before highlighting the significance of the other flight, adding: &#8220;I&#8217;m sure you can see who it is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They then say: &#8220;I got to talk to you twice every time, Spirit 1300\u2026 Pay attention. Get off the iPad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A source told NBC that the Spirit plane and Air Force One maintained the required separation.<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/skynews-donald-trump-melania_7022488.jpg\"   alt=\"Donald and Melania Trump disembarking. Pic: Reuters\" data-testid=\"article-image-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Image:<br \/>\n        Donald and Melania Trump disembarking. Pic: Reuters<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Spirit said that its flight &#8220;followed procedures and Air Traffic Control instructions while en route to Boston&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Safety is always our top priority,&#8221; they added.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/images-of-trump-and-epstein-projected-on-windsor-castle-ahead-of-protests-13432557\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arrests made over Trump-Epstein Windsor stunt<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/sword-book-and-union-flag-among-gifts-exchanged-between-the-king-and-donald-trump-13432775\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The King and Trump exchange gifts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The US president and first lady are in the UK for a second state visit.<\/p>\n<p>They <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/trumps-state-visit-begins-as-epstein-images-beamed-on-to-windsor-castle-13432498\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">touched down<\/a> at London&#8217;s Stansted Airport on Tuesday night, where they were greeted by the newly-installed Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sdc-site-video__accessibility-message\" data-role=\"accessibility-message\">Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/skynews-windsor-castle-beating_7023204.jpg\" alt=\"\"  aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"sdc-site-video__poster-img excluded-image\" data-testid=\"sitewide-video-poster\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                1:11<\/p>\n<p>               Trump visits King &#8211; moments you might have missed<\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/download-app\" target=\"blank\" data-tracking-label=\"ui-app-promo-download-link\" class=\"ui-app-promo sdc-article-widget\" data-type=\"\" data-component-name=\"ui-app-promo\" data-testid=\"app-promo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Trumps then travelled to central London by helicopter and spent the night at the US ambassador&#8217;s residence Winfield House, in Regent&#8217;s Park.<\/p>\n<p>They are now being hosted by the King and Queen at Windsor Castle, where engagements have included a carriage ride, a military parade and a Red Arrows flypast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An air traffic controller had to repeatedly warn a flight to turn away from Air Force One&#8217;s path&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-27683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}