Productivity Software that Could Have Prevented Tonight’s Capitol Evacuation

Earlier this evening, the Capitol Police in Washington, D.C. called for an evacuation of Congress due to an “aircraft that poses probable threat” which was flying circles around Capitol Building airspace, according to the Associated Press’s Zeke Miller. Given the violent riot and attempted insurrection that recently took place there, one could forgive USCP for operating with an abundance of caution. 

What became clear in short order was that the aircraft in question, according to Flight Radar, had taken off from nearby Joint Base Andrews, and was of a make and model in use by Army parachute teams as well as commercial skydivers. Incidentally, that’s because the payload of this suspicious Viking DHC-6-400 was, in fact, parachutists. Parachutists from the Army’s Golden Knights, specifically, who were dropping into Nationals Park during tonight’s game against the Arizona Diamondbacks. (At the time of this writing, the Diamondbacks are winning, handily.)

As later reported by severaljournalists, the airspace incursion was part of a preplanned Military Appreciation Day — which appears on the Nat’s game schedule and entitles two free tickets to (as it’s written on their website) “ACTIVE DUTY, DEPENDENTS, VETERANS, AND RESERVISTS WITH MILITARY ID OR PROOF OF …read more