Politics & Government
Was That the President's Helicopter That Flew Over Sunday?
Some readers speculate that the Chinook helicopters they saw flying over Geneva Sunday afternoon might have contained the president.
A few alert Geneva readers contacted Geneva Patch on Sunday afternoon, saying they saw a helicopter accompanied by Chinook helicopters flying overhead and asked if President Obama might be in town.
The helicopter flew by sometime around 3 p.m. Sunday.
I called DuPage Airport, and the operator there said the helicopters did not land at DuPage Airport. The operator said he had received other phone calls asking similar questions.
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The helicopter that hauls the president is called Marine One, which is what the Marine Corps calls any aircraft carrying the president. It's usually operated by the HMX-1 "Nighthawks" squadron, according to Wikipedia.
Patch sent an e-mail to the White House with a request for additional information.
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Editor's note: The photos attached here are from a Dearborn, MI, Patch article about a similar helicopter sighting there.
