Posted at 12:48 a.m., Thursday, January 31, 2008
Super Bowl: Aircraft to patrol no-fly zone over stadium
Associated Press
Aircraft from U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Air National Guard will patrol a no-fly zone over the site of the Super Bowl on Sunday.The customs agency will have a Cessna Citation jet, Blackhawk helicopter and Pilatus P-12 aircraft patrolling the skies to enforce a no-fly zone 35 miles around University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, a western suburb of Phoenix, from 3 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., MST, on Sunday. A smaller off-limits zone will be in place from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
The P-12 is equipped with a camera system that will feed video to a joint operations center in Phoenix.
Also patrolling the area will be F-16 fighter jets from the 162nd Fighter Wing unit, based in Tucson. Jets also will fly a series of defense missions Friday morning over parts of Tucson, Nogales and metro Phoenix.
People should not be alarmed if they see aircraft flying lower than usual this week, authorities said.
