Some residents of eastern Colorado Springs saw an impromptu air show Monday morning as a pair of fighter jets escorted an airliner into Peterson Air Force Base during a training exercise.
The sight had some worrying that the transport had been hijacked or suffered some other emergency.
“From what I have read, this is the procedure if there is some type of in-flight emergency,” said Steve Learning, who spotted the planes over his neighborhood near Barnes and Marksheffel roads just after 10:40 a.m. Continue reading “NORAD training exercise over eastern Colorado Springs draws attention”