U.S. Jet Gets Parking Ticket on British Road
From Reuters
LONDON —
A U.S. Navy jet got a parking ticket after it overshot the runway at a British air base and landed on a road.
A Thames Valley police sergeant slapped the $21 fine on the Viking S-3 anti-submarine plane, from the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, after it overshot the runway while landing at a base in southern England on Tuesday. A base spokesman said no one was hurt.
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