NATIONAL BRIEFING / NEW YORK
The White House plans an inquiry into a low-flying photo shoot by a presidential plane that panicked New Yorkers and cost taxpayers $328,835. President Obama said it won’t happen again. The White House military office approved the photo-op, which cost $35,000 in fuel alone for the plane and two jet fighter escorts.
Monday’s flight low over the Hudson River evoked chilling memories of Sept. 11, as the huge 747 and an F-16 fighter plane whizzed past the Statue of Liberty and the Lower Manhattan financial district. Panicked office workers fled into the streets.
White House officials did not say why new photos were needed, nor who the audience was for the photographs.
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