By Steve Gorman
LOS ANGELES, Feb 16 (Reuters) - A tiny airplane along with over something like 20 excess weight associated with marijuana strayed into limited airspace all-around President Barack Obama 's helicopter upon Thursday throughout Los Angeles, prompting U.S. F-16 fighters to help dash off to to intercept it, officials said.
The two F-16s were scrambled coming from March Air Reserve Base, far east regarding Los Angeles, by means of North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD) Command authorities alerted for you to a strong airspace infringement "in your vicinity" connected with Los Angeles International Airport, a NORAD spokesman said.
The fighter jets manufactured call with the pilot with the Cessna 182, a single-engine plane, plus the pilot after that complied using instructions that will land at Long Beach Airport, spokesman Michael Kucharek said.
U.S. Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan mentioned brokers wondered that pilot plus determined there were simply no obvious objective to be able to problems the president.
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