Barack Obama - Plane Carrying Marijuana Strays Into Obama La Airspace

(Adds that pilot unsuccessful in order to reply to the airwaves communications)

By Steve Gorman

LOS ANGELES, Feb 16 (Reuters) - A modest airplane by using above twenty pounds with marijuana strayed directly into restricted airspace close to President Barack Obama 's heli-copter about Thursday within Los Angeles, compelling U.S. F-16 martial artists in order to rush in order to intercept it, officials said.

The a couple F-16s had been scrambled from March Air Reserve Base, east regarding Los Angeles, by means of North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD) Command authorities alerted for you to an airspace infringement "in your vicinity" associated with Los Angeles International Airport, a new NORAD spokesman said.

The mma fighter jets made contact while using pilot belonging to the Cessna 182, a single-engine plane, along with the pilot and then complied having guidelines to land with Long Beach Airport, spokesman Michael Kucharek said.

U.S. Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan stated agencies asked your pilot along with identified there was clearly no evident intention to damages the president.