"There are surface-to-air missiles now stationed around the
nation's capital. But at the same time, if we shine a light on this
that has any glow to it at all, is that the government system
worked. They tracked this plane, without radio contact, they
intercepted this airplane with flares and finally got their
attention. I'm sure that they tried to do so much earlier. Then
they probably assessed that this is a two-seater airplane,
single-engine, with two adults in it. It barely carries the fuel to
get even halfway to North Carolina. They probably made the
calculated decision: Let's not do this."
Source: AOPA President Phil Boyer, in an interview
with CNN, after a Cessna 150K made a deep incursion into the
Washington ADIZ. The aircraft came within three miles of the