Let's take the Air Force One flyover incident into yet another day! Fox News wanted to calculate the cost beyond the $328,835 it cost to fly the Boeing 747 and fighter jets on Monday, so it asked Mayor Bloomberg's office "how much the city had to spend to deal with the panic."
Apparently NYC 911 got flyover-related 97 calls (about a 15% increase) in an hour while Jersey City said it received about 13 calls. A Jersey City spokeswoman Jennifer Morrill said cops were dispatched to Exchange Place, "(The police) had a loudspeaker, telling people it wasn't an attack. There were people falling down stairs, and there was a lot of confusion and chaos." And NYC mayoral press secretary Jason Post said, "We don't have any inventory nor will we be able to prepare one. We can't count the jet fuel like the Pentagon did. It was an unwelcome disruption, but we don't have a number to put on it." (An unwelcome disruption...like mysterious maple syrup smells?)
Here are a few of the 911 calls—one below and others after the jump:
Time found that the Air Force, Pentagon, and White House press offices kept trying to shift calls inquiring about the flyover to each other. And the Daily News is asking readers to Photoshop Air Force One into photographs—you can see the submissions here.
And here's a link to a caller from Staten Island.
