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And baiji is different. once they have full control of baiji they will control all of the oil structure north and south and deny isil the revenue through oil. baiji is a more strategic target. that s why the focus is on baiji. how serious is the isil threat to the refinery? it s serious in the sense that they ve penetrated the outer perimeter. you ve been there, i think. it s an extraordinarily large expansive facility. the refinery itself is at no risk right now. but we re focusing a lot of our isr and air support there. craig whitlock. one question after that. a followup question on iraq. i wanted to ask about the proximity of u.s. military personnel to the fighting and if that s changed in recent days or weeks. were there any u.s. military controllers or jtags or people calling in strikes in tikrit? has the u.s. offered to do that in ramadi? ....
Supposedly were doing what they were supposed to do and they didn t work. so what i m suggesting here is we know what are the facts? we know after the acar system went down the transponder was turned off, the last communication this plane made a 180-degree turn, basically. it flew back across the malaysian peninsula. they have military radar which tracked this airplane. they have primary radar hits until they got to the west coast of malaysia. at that point we have the north and the southbound route. now, how could that happen? yeah. well, the new york times reported today that there were four radar controllers, military controllers kwhorp responsible for that, whether they were sleeping on the job, whether they couldn t appreciate the significance of a primary hit remains to be seen and analyzed. but the point is the plane flew across the peninsula with impunity and was not intercepted or stopped. so, mark, what do you make of ....
Faa s virginia regional radar facility allowed the first lady s plane to get too close to air force c-17 cargo plane in front of it. now the faa requires a separation of five miles between planes at that lore altitude because of the turbulence over the wings, the wing tip vortices. civilian controller told the military controller at andrews that the distance between the two was four miles but that was inaccurate. in fact, the distance was just over three miles. the andrews controller instructed the 737 to make a series of s turns to increase the distance but that was ineffective. military controllers were unsure if there was enough time for the c-17 to get off the runway once it landed for the first lady s plane to land on the same runway so they instructed the first lady plane to abort the landing. this, of course, comes after a series of embarrassing incidents. five cases of controllers sleeping on the job. another case of a controller watching dvds on the job and ....
Faa s virginia regional radar facility allowed the first lady s plane to get too close to air force c-17 cargo plane in front of it. now the faa requires a separation of five miles between planes at that lore altitude because of the turbulence over the wings, the wing tip vortices. civilian controller told the military controller at andrews that the distance between the two was four miles but that was inaccurate. in fact, the distance was just over three miles. the andrews controller instructed the 737 to make a series of s turns to increase the distance but that was ineffective. military controllers were unsure if there was enough time for the c-17 to get off the runway once it landed for the first lady s plane to land on the same runway so they instructed the first lady plane to abort the landing. this, of course, comes after a series of embarrassing incidents. five cases of controllers sleeping on the job. another case of a controller ....