An eagle plaque hangs on the wall at the Region Air Operations Center at Joint Base Elemendorf-Richardson, Alaska, to represent one of the aircraft intercepted on Sept. 11, 2001. The pilots of Korean Airlines flight 85 had mistakenly set the Boeing 747Õs transponder to 7500, a code indicating that the plane had been hijacked, so the commercial jet, which was bound for Ted Stevens Airport in Anchorage, Alaska, was intercepted by USAF F-15s and escorted to a runway in Canada. Hundreds of plaques representing intercepts hang on the wall at the RAOC. ( Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Brian Ferguso
An eagle plaque hangs on the wall at the Region Air Operations Center at Joint Base Elemendorf-Richardson, Alaska, to represent one of the aircraft intercepted on Sept. 11, 2001. The pilots of Korean Airlines flight 85 had mistakenly set the Boeing 747Õs transponder to 7500, a code indicating that the plane had been hijacked, so the commercial jet, which was bound for Ted Stevens Airport in Anchorage, Alaska, was intercepted by USAF F-15s and escorted to a runway in Canada. Hundreds of plaques representing intercepts hang on the wall at the RAOC. ( Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Brian Ferguson) by AirmanMagazine
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