By accident or not, a U.S. Navy E-6B is flying over CONUS using callsign “Trump.”
http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/e-6b-doomsday-plane-is-using-%E2%80%9Ctrump%E2%80%9D-as-radio-callsign.454730148/
This is really interesting: at 18.15 GMT an E-6B Mercury (TACAMO – “TAke Charge And Move Out”) that appear to have departed from Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, is flying at 29,000 feet over central U.S.
Based on the information gathered by Planefinder.net via ADS-B, the aircraft is serialled 162784 and it is flying more or less southbound over Arkansas, after crossing the airspaces over Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.
And, most interesting, it’s using a somehow unusual callsign: Trump.
Not sure the reason behind this callsign.
Most probably someone thought that it was funny to give a “Doomsday” plane the name of the (controversial) candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in the 2016 election as a radio callsign. Or maybe something else. Who knows?
Anyway, the “Mercury” are U.S. Navy operated aircraft that play an extremely important role for U.S. National Security: they are used to relay instructions to the fleet ballistic missile submarines in case of nuclear war but also act as back ups of the four E-4Bs NAOC (National Alternate Operations Center), working as ABNCP (Airborne Command Post) platforms (hence “Doomsday Plane“).
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Also the date of the article is : Mar 18, 2016
Mad Poet Strikes Again.
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