QM2 departs Brooklyn with extra security



I just watched the Queen Mary 2 depart Brooklyn, and with an unusual amount of security. It used to always get one, sometimes two helicopter escorts, even for its 5 a.m. arrivals. But lately, nothing, except for the 3 Queens thing.

Actually, come to thing of it, I watched it arrive around 7 a.m. today and didn't see of hear helicopters.



Anyhow, tonight's departure had police boats and two helicopters flying closer than I've ever seen. (Which kind of freaks me out ever since I read the pilot's and co-pilot's remarks from those East River helicopter crashes in 2005.)

My only guess is that they're worried about retalition after someone stuck a bomb under the car of Hezbollah's Imad Moughniyah in Syria.

Labels: brooklyn, nyc, pictures

- posted by Amy @ 2/15/2008 05:39:00 PM