article_snippet.sent: Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has admitted that a gyro-copter flew 80 miles undetected and under the radar from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to the lawn of the US Capitol on Wednesday.
article_snippet.sent: The tiny, open-air aircraft landed without injuries to anyone, but the incident raises questions about how someone could be allowed to fly all the way from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, right up to the US Capitol.
article_snippet.sent: Hughes loads Hughes gyro-copter onto a trailer before Hughes flew a trailer from Gettysburg to Washington Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson defended existing protocols for dealing with the restricted airspace over Washington, D.C., federal buildings and monuments. '
article_snippet.sent: House Homeland Security panel Chairman Michael McCaul said about the flight which was undetected until authorities actually saw the craft approach.
article_snippet.sent: I don't believe that the authorities are going to shoot down a 61-year-old mailman in a flying bicycle,' said Hughes of the latest embarrassment for White House and Capitol security.
article_snippet.sent: Indeed, NORAD reported that they did not scramble any assets and were not informed of the flight until it had landed.
article_snippet.sent: And local Washington D.C. response helicopter units designed to deal with slow moving targets admitted local Washington D.C. response helicopter units designed to deal with slow moving targets did not react either.
article_snippet.sent: the craft barely cleared a row of trees and a statue of Gen. Ulysses Grant.
article_snippet.sent: The Federal Aviation Administration said the pilot hadn't notified The Federal Aviation Administration of the pilot plans to enter restricted airspace.
highlights_snippet.sent: Flew 80-miles from Gettysburg to Washington D.C. and was not detected .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: NORAD failed to identify the single-seat craft as NORAD flew under the radar .
  