FAA announces Super Bowl LV safety plan
January 28, 2021
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is working with federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, the aviation community, and the National Football League to ensure safe, secure and efficient operations before, during and after Super Bowl LV. The Super Bowl will be held Feb. 7, 2021, at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida.
The agency is planning for hundreds of additional take-offs and landings and aircraft parked at Tampa Bay airports during Super Bowl week. Special procedures, including Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFR) and a No Drone Zone will limit flights around Raymond James Stadium before, during and after the game.
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VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Sputnik) - Russia s Tu-142 antisubmarine aircraft performed a scheduled flight over the Bering Sea and the Sea of Chukotsk, the flight range.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) detected and tracked two Russian Tu-142 “Bear” maritime reconnaisance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft crossing into the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) on Monday night.
While Russia has frequently sent aircraft near the Alaskan coast, this latest incident is the first NORAD has publicly disclosed in 2021 and comes just days after President Joe Biden took office on Wednesday, Jan. 20.
NORAD tweeted, At approx. 7pm EST, Alaskan NORAD Region positively identified and tracked two Tu-142 Russian maritime patrol aircraft entering the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone. The aircraft remained in int’l airspace and did not enter [U.S.] or [Canadian] sovereign airspace. #WeHaveTheWatch.”
The North American Aerospace Defense Command says it tracked two Russian reconnaissance aircraft Monday afternoon that flew near U.S. airspace.
A NORAD news release posted Monday night says the agency’s Alaska Region headquarters at Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson identified and tracked two Russian Tu-142 maritime patrol aircraft that entered the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone just before 3 p.m. Monday.
An F-22 from Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson, along with Canadian CF-18s and an E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft intercepted two Russian Tu-142 maritime reconnaissance aircraft that had entered the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone on March 9, 2020.
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