Detroit Gets Close Encounter With Jet -- Residents Mixed About Flyover
DETROIT -- The excitement at the annual speed boat races along the Detroit river Sunday wasn't confined to just the water.
A scheduled fly-over by an F-18 Navy jet was captured by a photographer and the picture is getting attention nationwide.
The picture shows the jet, turned sideways, zooming past a high-rise Detroit apartment complex. It appears to be very close to the building.
"It fe
More..lt like the sky was falling," said tenant Carol Stover, who saw the jet. "I looked up and saw the jet and I was praying we weren't under attack."
The picture, which appeared in the Detroit News, New York Post and on the "Today" show Monday, was taken by Detroit News photographer Steve Perez.
"As I was going back to edit I saw it and it just kind of jumped out (at you)," said Perez. "It's one of those things that's just timing and luck."
Tenant Inez Brown watched the fly-over from her balcony on the 28th floor. "I didn't get the perspective that they were that close. I was like a kid in the candy store. I got a chance to see some professional fighter pilots in action and that's something you don't see everyday. They did some phenomenal maneuvers."
According to the military, the jet was actually about 200 to 300 feet away from the shoreline. Authorities said no one on the ground or in a building was ever at any risk.
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Added: Jul 14 2009 In: news_politics
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