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You’d almost think the military has forgotten to notify when they enter civilian ATC airspace….
Or maybe a dumbass came in and fired all of the air traffic controllers?
That’s why you’d only almost think it.
This wasn't a military aircraft, it was a privately owned 70 year old jet.
The Hawker Hunter is a WWII-era fighter jet. And the specific jet involved here seems to be registered to Hawker Hunter Aviation, a British defense contractor. So it's a "military jet" both by design and use. It's just not the US military.
The question here was whether it was subject to civilian or military aviation ATC - from every report released thus far, it was under civilian authority. Obviously, yes, a fighter jet was originally a military aircraft - but that isn't relevant at the moment, since it's registered to an organization independent of the US military.
That is the real question. It's not a current military jet, that model was never used by the US military it was built for the British RAF..., but It is currently owned and operated by a British defense contractor, and by some reports was flying to a US Air Force base. So it is very relevant.
The military in "military jet", an adjective, is not the same as the military in "the military forgot to notify" a noun. One's a description and the other an entity.
You're right. And for 90% of people, "military" and "defense contractor" are synonymous.
Perhaps we 've reached that level of ignorance. Still it ain't the same for air traffic control and law.
It's actually worse than that. I don't think they're necessarily trained to, unless they have to.
And they have entirely different rules since they follow compared to civilian aviation and they don't generally understand, like, the zoning or the air traffic lanes, which has resulted in really catastrophic accidents in the past.
Could be wrong about this. It's off the top of my dome.