Low-flying jet unsettles New Yorkers--great headline. A White House plane, actually the double to Air Force One, was taking part in a government-sanctioned photo shoot over several downtown Manhattan buildings today and workers and residents became frightened and started evacuating. People reported seeing the plane circle over the Upper New York Bay near the Statue of Liberty and then flying up the Hudson River. And, who authorized this photo shoot--why the director of the White House Military Office, Mr. Louis Caldera. Captain Anna Carpenter of Andrews Air Force Base stated that local law enforcement agencies and the Federal Aviation Administration had been given notice of the exercise. Now refresh my memory--I thought it was a photo shoot? New York Police Deputy Commissioner, Paul J. Browne, said that the department had been alerted to the flight by the federal agency "with directives to local authorities not to disclose information about it." So....wouldn't that mean they were not suppose to tell the public? Mayor Michael Bloomberg expressed that he was annoyed that he wasn't told. He called the aviation administration's decision to classify details about the flight as sensitive and nonpublic "ridiculous" and "poor judgement." Annoyed? I'd be down right hog-tied. I have to side with Senator Chuck Schumers statement--"It is absolutely outrageous and appalling to think that the FAA would plan such a photo shoot and not warn the public, knowing full well New Yorkers still have the vivid memory of 9/11 sketched in their minds. It borders on being either cruel or very very stupid." What the hell is going on in Washington DC to authorize this stunt? This plane is suppose to be shadowing Air Force 1 and instead it's flying a photo shoot/exercise over Manhattan scaring the crap out of American citizens. Mr. Louis Caldera, if he did indeed authorize this incident should be fired. And, on top of all that, I want to know who was in this aircraft taking the pictures. If it was one or two individuals it's a waste of taxpayer money to fly a 747 and F-16s when they could be in a helicopter. And, if it was a group of people, who were they and what fun did they get out of scaring people into panic attacks? Yes, sir, Mr. Caldera, why don't you authorize a low-flying 747 over the Pentagon and see whose ass gets kicked out of Washington. PS. Captain Sully, who handed the U.S. Airways plane on the Hudson River is now unemployed. The idiots at U.S. Airways laid him off. Good luck getting any decent pilots to fly U.S. Airways planes.